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'Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent whilst their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget? @skydavidblevins questions the mayor of LA, Karen Bass, as she faces backlash regarding the California wildfires. https://trib.al/unMkvcv
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Do you owe citizens an apology for your absence while their homes burned? Do you regret cutting the fire department's budget by a million dollars? Elon Musk has criticized your competence. Have you nothing to say to the citizens affected by this disaster?
Fire chiefs admit they lack personnel to combat the fires, facing challenges like water shortages and fire hydrant failures. Firefighting aircraft have been grounded due to heavy smoke.
Currently, 80,000 people have been evacuated, with thousands more on standby. Tragically, two lives have been lost in the Eton fire. The city's iconic landscape is obscured by smoke, and officials are hoping for a change in wind direction to help control the blaze.
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Speaker 0: Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by 1,000,000 of dollars, madam mayor? Have you nothing to say today? Back up. Yeah.
Appreciate it. Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position? Madam mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster?
No apology for them? Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home? Madam mayor, let me ask you just again. Have you anything to say to the citizens today as you return? They're gonna they're gonna cut it.
Ma'am, hold on one second. Madam mayor, just a few words for the citizens today as you return to deal with the catastrophe. Deal with the stone.
Speaker 1: David, as you say, she wasn't very keen, to answer any of your questions there, and and fire chiefs are also admitting that they just don't have enough personnel to to take out the fires.
Speaker 0: Yeah. They're fighting all sorts of challenges. They're talking about a water shortage. There are reports of fire hydrant failures. They've been unable to use firefighting aircraft for much of the day due to the smoke that is billowing ominously from the hills where the wild fires are raging.
And I suppose despite that political storm, this is, of course, at its heart, a human story because we've now 80,000 people evacuated. Tens of 1,000 of others are on standby to be evacuated. 2 lives have been lost in the Eton fire, which is what's causing the consequence behind us. The city's iconic landscape almost shrouded completely, by the smoke, and they're really just taking it one step at a time, hoping at some stage the wind's going to change direction or to die down and that they're going to be able to get this fire under control.
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@greg_price11 - Greg Price
Mayor Karen Bass literally just read the words "URL" off her script during the press conference instead of the emergency website for the victims of the fire. I think we have a new winner for most incompetent politician in America. https://t.co/KIQfIVCWZB
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Build stronger than ever. If you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter are available at the provided URL. Together, Los Angeles will overcome this challenge, thanks to the heroism of our firefighters and the vigilance of our community.
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Speaker 0: Build stronger than ever. Right now, if you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available. All of this can be found at u r URL. Los Angeles together is how we will get through this. Through the heroism of our firefighters, the vigilant
@Huberton - AJ Huber
🚨BREAKING: LA Department of Water and Power DEI idiot CEO Janisse Quinones blames “so much water being used” for why ON WATER! Resign. #LosAngeles #LosAngelesFire Unbelievable. Excuse me? She got $750,000 per year? WTF! https://t.co/PR6eeYQfEP
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We ran out of water in the first tank around 4:45 PM yesterday, the second tank at 8:30 PM, and the third tank at 3 AM. The tents help manage pressure on the fire hydrants, but the water consumption exceeded our supply rate. Although there is water in the trunk line, it can't reach the hill quickly enough to refill the tanks. By 3 AM, all fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades ran dry. We are sending 20 water tanks to support the fire department and working to refill them. Due to high demand, water quality in ZIP code 90272 is declining, prompting a boil water notice for 48 hours due to ash contamination. Please boil water before drinking.
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Speaker 0: We ran out of water in the first tank about 4:45 PM yesterday. We ran out of water in the second tank about 8:30 PM and the third tank about 3 AM this morning. Those tents help with the pressure on the fire hydrants and the hills of Palisades. And because we were pushing so much water in our trunk line, and so much water was being used before it can't get to the tents, we were not able to fill the tents fast enough. So the consumption of water was faster than we can provide water in a trunk line.
So I wanna make sure that you understand there's water on the trunk line. It just cannot get off the hill because we cannot fill the tanks fast enough.
Speaker 1: What is the number of hydrants that could not get water because of these pressure issues? What percentage of the system in Pacific Palisades wasn't getting, service at that point?
Speaker 0: We, we were trying to keep water at all altitudes on the Palisades, and then I think about 3 in the morning, that's when, the hydrants went dry. Above the Brentwood area, we are able to push water on the on that, on that trunk line on on the east side of that, and we have some water on higher elevations, 16 to 18,000, but at 3,000, all of the at 3 AM, all of the, fire hydrants went dry in the palisades. What are we doing now? We're we're sending about 20 water tanks for our construction crews full of water to support the fire department. We identified other areas in our system where our tanks our tankers can't refill.
It takes about 30 minutes to refill about 4,000 gallons of water, and we're constantly moving that water to the fire department to get them as much water as we can. For the people on, ZIP code 90272, because we're pushing the water system so hard, our water quality is decreasing. So we're gonna be issuing a boil water notice this morning, and that will extend for about 48 hours. The water quality is low. We have a lot of ash in our system.
And so please, if you're gonna be drinking water, you need to boil the water. Those boil waters will continue to increase as the system starts restoring.
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In the coming weeks, you'll hear Governor Newsom and Mayor Bass claim that nothing could have been done to prevent the fires in Los Angeles. This is false. Newsom cut funding for fire prevention and failed to build necessary water resources, while Bass slashed the fire department's budget and left for Ghana amid the risks. Their focus on radical Left priorities has led to neglect in essential areas like fire management and public safety. Californians need to recognize this failure and demand leaders who prioritize practical solutions over ideology.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Over the next few weeks you’re going to hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing that could have been done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles. Those will be lies. They could have prevented them. Governor Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass cut $17.5 million in funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires. It’s true that California, in general, and Los Angeles, in particular, are fiery places. It’s true that the Santa Ana winds made the fires worse. But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. Their rank incompetence and lack of leadership are shocking and scandalous. It’s hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management. LA firefighters haven’t had the water they needed. Newsom hasn’t built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year. Why is that? Part of the reason is that they were focused on other things. Making the fire department more racially diverse. Climate change. Homelessness. And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical Left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on. Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California. The Democrats in California aren’t like Democrats in other states. They are radicals. I would know, since when I was a young radical I moved to California for that reason. As many of us get older, we become more moderate. We become more practical. We understand firefighters and police officers are necessary. We are reminded of the importance of things like safe streets and hard work and good schools. But more than that, I saw the consequences of radical progressive policies on the environment, homelessness, crime, education, water, and everything else. Violent criminals, in particular, are devouring Los Angeles, Oakland, and the rest of California. The people who control the Democratic Party in California worship books about Los Angeles, like City of Quartz by the Marxist author Mike Davis. In that book, Davis claims that the problem in Los Angeles is that too much money goes to things like firefighting to protect wealthy neighborhoods. They did the same thing on crime and homelessness. They failed to provide adequate funding to the police. They weakened the laws that allowed for burglaries and robberies. They subsidized homelessness, attracting homeless people from around the United States to camp illegally and start fires. Over half of the fires in places like Los Angeles and Oakland are caused by the homeless committing arson, often out of some petty revenge. We don’t know what started all of the fires, but at least one started within the housing subdivision. Others may have started in the interface between housing and wildlands. Or it could have been started by the homeless. Whatever the case, California and LA didn’t invest enough in preventing fires because they were distracted by radical Left causes. When Rick Caruso ran for Mayor against Karen Bass, he called for increasing the fire department’s budget. A big part of the reason he lost is simply because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn’t vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black. The Latino men and women in separate focus groups were much less racist. They wanted to know about their policies. It was the radical Left that invented the racist idea that white people alive today should feel guilty about things white people did in the past. Racist white guilt led people in Los Angeles and California to vote against a guy who would have prevented those fires. And so, over the next few weeks, when you hear Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic Party tell you that there’s nothing they could have done to prevent the fires from destroying Los Angeles, don’t believe them. It’s time for California to grow up and move beyond the juvenile Leftism that has destroyed the state and destroyed Los Angeles. We can’t trust our leaders to run anything. It’s not just incompetence. It’s that they really don’t care. It’s time for Californians to demand new leaders — ones who aren’t beholden to the radicals who control the Democratic Party. .
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Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass are misleading the public about the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, claiming nothing could have been done to prevent them. Newsom cut funding for fire prevention and water resources, while Bass reduced the Los Angeles Fire Department's budget. Despite knowing the risks, they prioritized other issues over essential fire management. The lack of investment in infrastructure has left firefighters without adequate resources. Additionally, radical left policies have weakened law enforcement and contributed to homelessness, which is linked to many fires. The focus on identity politics has overshadowed critical issues, leading to poor leadership and management. Californians need to demand new leaders who prioritize practical solutions over radical agendas.
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Speaker 0: Hey, everybody. It's Mike Shellenberger for Public. Over the next few weeks, you're going to hear governor Gavin Newsom, mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic party tell you that there's nothing that could have been done to prevent the catastrophic fires from ravaging Los Angeles. Those will be lies. They could have prevented them.
Governor Gavin Newsom cut the funding for preventing forest fires and failed to build sufficient water resources for fighting fires. Mayor Karen Bass cut 17,500,000 in funding for the Los Angeles Fire Department and then went to Ghana even though she knew of the risk of catastrophic fires. Now it's true that California in general and Los Angeles in particular are fiery places, and it's true that Santa Ana winds made the fires worse. But Newsom and Bass have known about those hazards for all of their careers and failed to deal with them. The rank incompetence, the lack of leadership is shocking and scandalous.
It's hard to overstate how badly they screwed up water management in particular. Los Angeles firefighters haven't had the water they needed. Newsom hasn't built the new water reservoirs that Los Angeles needed. And Newsom even cut the budget for water infrastructure projects last year. So why is that?
Well, part of the reason is that they were focused on other things, making the fire department more racially diverse, climate change, homelessness. And the reason they were focused on those things is because those are what the radical left that controls the Democratic party wanted them to focus on. Year after year, they do nothing while focusing on things like trans and Trump and climate and ignoring the things that really matter to the people of California. The Democrats in California aren't like Democrats in other states. They are radicals.
And I should know since I was a young radical who moved to California for that reason. As many of us get older, we become more moderate. We become more practical, we understand that firefighters and police officers are necessary, and we're reminded of the importance of things like safe streets and hard work and good schools. But more than that, I personally saw the consequences of radical progressive policies on the environment, homelessness, crime, education, water, and everything else. Violent criminals in particular are now devouring Los Angeles, Oakland, and the rest of California.
The people who control the Democratic Party in California worship books about Los Angeles like City of Courts by the Marxist author, Mike Davis. In that book, Davis claims that the prom in Los Angeles is there's too much money going to things like firefighting to protect wealthy neighborhoods. They did the same thing on crime and homelessness. They failed to provide adequate funding to the police. They weakened the laws that allowed for burglaries and robberies.
They subsidized homelessness, attracting homeless people from all around the United States to camp illegally and start fires in California. Over half of the fires in LA and Oakland are caused by homeless people, mostly committing arson, often out of some petty revenge. We don't know what start all the fires in LA, but at least one started within a housing subdivision. Others may have started in the interface between housing and wild lands, or it could have been started by the homeless. Whatever the case, California and LA did not invest enough in preventing fires because they were distracted by radical left causes.
When Rick Caruso ran for mayor against Karen Bass, he called for increasing the fire department's budget, but a big part of the reason he lost is because he was white. I watched focus groups in 2022 and the most racist people were white liberals in Los Angeles. When they discussed the mayoral race, the white people overwhelmingly said they couldn't vote for a white man and had to vote for a black woman because she was black. Interestingly enough, the Latino men and women in separate focus groups were much less racist. They wanted to know about the policies of the mayoral candidates.
It was the radical left that invented the racist idea that all white people today should feel guilty about things that all white people did in the past. This racist white guilt led people in Los Angeles to vote against a guy who would have prevented those fires. And so over the next few weeks, when you hear governor Gavin Newsom, mayor Karen Bass, and the Democratic party tell you there's nothing they could have done to prevent those catastrophic fires from destroying Los Angeles, don't believe them. It's time for California to grow up and move beyond the juvenile leftism that has destroyed the state and destroyed Los Angeles. We really can't trust California leaders to run anything.
It's not just incompetence. It's that they really don't care. Now is the time for Californians to demand new leaders, ones who aren't beholden to the radicals who control the Democratic party. Thanks for listening.
@DC_Draino - DC_Draino
And there it is LA Fire Department cancelled fire hydrant testing b/c they didn’t have enough budget money Remember, LA Mayor Bass recently cut over $17 million from LAFD This fire is the fault of failed Democrat leadership Californians should be pissed
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I came across a shocking report revealing that LA Mayor Karen Bass ordered an additional $49 million in cuts to the Fire Department just a week before wildfires broke out. This comes after already slashing $17.6 million from the budget. The memo suggests that these cuts could have resulted in the closure of 16 fire stations, significantly impacting the department's emergency response capabilities. There's growing concern about whether Mayor Bass should be removed from office due to these decisions.
@ChuckCallesto - Chuck Callesto
SHOCK REPORT: ⚠️ Leaked Memo Shows LA Mayor Karen Bass ORDERED FIRE DEPARTMENT to Cut an Additional $49 Million Just ONE WEEK Before Wildfires Erupted.. SHOULD KAREN BASS BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE? A leaked memo has revealed that Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered her Fire Department to implement an additional $49 million in budget cuts last week. This reduction comes on top of the $17.6 million already slashed in her latest budget. Sources say the extra cuts, requested just days before wildfires ravaged large parts of Los Angeles, WOULD HAVE LED TO THE CLOSURE of 16 fire stations and severely hampered the department's ability to respond to emergencies.
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I learned that the Pacific Palisades reservoir was empty and offline during the firestorm, which is criminal. It holds 117 million gallons and could have provided crucial water pressure for firefighters. Now, officials admit this likely led to dry hydrants and low water pressure.
@nicksortor - Nick Sortor
🚨 JUST IN: The Pacific Palisades reservoir was EMPTY AND OFFLINE when the firestorm exploded, per LA Times This is CRIMINAL. The reservoir holds 117 million gallons of water, and would’ve given firefighters ample pressure to effectively fight the blaze. Overpaid Dept. of Water and Power officials have now been forced to admit the reservoir being offline likely contributed to dry fire hydrants and low water pressure. DEI did this.
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I shared an update on the LA Fire situation, highlighting how Fire Chief Kristin Crowley criticized LA officials for ignoring her warnings about budget cuts. She had cautioned Mayor Karen Bass that these cuts would hinder the Fire Department's ability to handle large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.
@MJTruthUltra - MJTruthUltra
UPDATE: LA Fire Los Angeles Fire Chief turns on LA Officials — “Yes”, They Failed Us To her credit…Dec 4… a few weeks ago, She warned Mayor Karen Bass the Millions of dollars cut from the Fire Department’s Budget would “severely limit the Department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including WILDFIRES” She was ignored… https://rumble.com/v67zdfp-los-angeles-fire-chief-kristin-crowley-turns-on-la-officials-yes-they-faile.html
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Did the city of Los Angeles fail the fire department? Yes. It's essential to provide the resources needed for firefighters to effectively serve the community.
Regarding the Santa Ynez reservoir being empty, when firefighters arrive at a hydrant, they expect water, but they don't control the water supply. If there's no water, they will find alternatives to manage the situation.
Concerns about DWP hydrants not being inspected due to budget cuts are valid, and we will address that to ensure water availability. Ultimately, our firefighters did everything they could to save lives and property with the resources they had. Let's focus on providing them with the necessary support and water.
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Speaker 0: Period. Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your department and our city? It's my job to stand up as a chief and exactly say justifiably what the fire department needs to operate to meet the demands of the community. Did they fail you? That is our job.
And I tell you, that's why I'm here. So let's get us what we need so our firefighters can do their jobs. Did they fail you? Yes.
Speaker 1: Chief Kristen Crowley. I believe the anchors, wanted to ask a question. Yes. They've had some comments. We do, Gigi.
If you could please ask her regarding the Times article that came out that the Santander reservoir was closed to repairs and it was empty. 117,000,000 gallons of water could have been used in this fight. The question is about the Santa Ynez reservoir being empty. There's been a
Speaker 0: lot of questions about that. Sure. So my stance on this is when a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there's gonna be water. We don't control the water supply. Our firefighters are there to protect lives and property and to make sure that we're properly trained and equipped.
That's my position on this. So if there's no water, I don't know how the water gets to the hydrants. Please defer that to DWP or whomever controls that part. But I can tell you the resiliency of our firefighters. If there's no water, they're gonna go find water.
They're gonna figure out a way to do the best they can with what they've got in a very dynamic situation.
Speaker 1: And I know you expressed concerns that those DWP hydrants would not be inspected thoroughly because of the budget cuts.
Speaker 0: That is something to discuss, and we're gonna look into that in regard to how we can ensure there's going to be water when we need it. But in the end, you know, I'm gonna defer that to DWP and whomever else controls the supply. I can guarantee you that when our firefighters showed up on that day with what they had, they did absolutely everything they could do to rescue and to save people's lives and property. And that's the bottom line. Now let's get them what they need to do their jobs and Let's get them water, chief.
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Major radio stations in Los Angeles are demanding the removal of Mayor Karen Bass. The recent fires have highlighted a crisis in the city, with strained water supplies and misallocated funds. Many feel she has been absent during this time, even choosing to travel abroad.
@nicksortor - Nick Sortor
🚨 JUST IN: Major radio stations here in Los Angeles are publicly calling for Mayor Karen Bass to be REMOVED These fires have really woken Californians! “Our city has been left in crisis. Water supplies strained, billions of taxpayer dollars misallocated, countless lives lost… yet Mayor Bass has been ABSENT, choosing to travel abroad.” RECALL KAREN BASS!
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There is a call for the immediate recall of Mayor Karen Bass due to her mismanagement and inadequate response to the 2020 fires. The city is in crisis, with strained water supplies, misallocated taxpayer funds, and significant loss of life and property. Families have been displaced, and basic resources like water and emergency services have been insufficient. Despite the efforts of first responders, leadership has been lacking during this critical time. The demand is for Mayor Bass to resign for her failure to lead effectively. A petition is being signed to support this recall effort.
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Speaker 0: Call for the immediate recall of mayor Karen Bass due to her gross mismanagement and failure to effectively respond to the devastating 2020 fires. In the wake of these catastrophic fires, our city has been left in crisis. Water supplies have been severely strained. 1,000,000,000 of taxpayer dollars have been misallocated or left unaccounted for, and countless lives have been lost. Families have been displaced, homes destroyed, livelihoods shattered, yet their bass has been absent from the front lines, choosing to travel abroad while her constituents suffer.
Despite the tireless efforts of our first responders, the city has been woefully unprepared to ensure the safety and well-being of its residents. Basic resources such as water and emergency services have been inadequate, and leadership has been nowhere to be found when it was needed most. We demand the immediate resignation of mayor Karen Bass due to her failure to lead during this unprecedented crisis. It goes on. I'm signing a position right now during the commercial break.
And let's put a link on our website for it because I think everybody it's not only for residents of
@DefiyantlyFree - Insurrection Barbie
This is the head urban forest management in Los Angeles. This was a meeting 3 months before the fires. Listen to what her goals are. Complete and total incompetence all the way around. Not one word about actual forest management, like clearing the brush. https://t.co/OnL0QPd8f9
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I'm excited to be here with fellow practitioners. Our core goals focus on equity, particularly distribution equity, ensuring all Angelenos have equitable access to the benefits of trees. For a healthy urban forest, we must plant, maintain, preserve, and engage with the community. Engagement involves listening to residents about their priorities for trees, such as desired species and shade needs, while also educating them on the importance of tree care and the benefits they provide. We aim to invest in areas that historically lack trees and shade, fostering a healthier urban environment through these four pillars: planting, maintenance, preservation, and community engagement.
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Speaker 0: I can't stop. So, again, Rachel Mallard with the City of Los Angeles. I think I know most of you. So glad to be in a room with so many of my heroes and fellow practitioners today, staff of myself and 2 other people. So we don't have a lot of time to do individual projects and that'll document.
2 of our core goals are gonna be thinking about those areas of equity that Rachel laid out. She talked about recognition, procedure, and distribution. And so one of our goals is related to distribution equity, saying that all Angelenos have access equitable access to the benefit of trees. In the city in urban forestry, you've heard me talk about my 4 pillars. To have a healthy urban forest, you have to plant.
That's not the end of it. You have to maintain those trees. You have to preserve the trees. Not the end of it. You have to maintain those trees.
You have to preserve the trees, and you have to engage with the public. And that engagement goes 2 ways. 1, hearing what's important to them with the urban forest in their area, both in terms of what their priorities are, in terms of what kind what kind of trees are important, what services from trees are important from them, where is it important for them to have shade, but also educating them. Why is property care and private property important? What are the services that you're getting from trees?
Why would we invest in an area that historically didn't have trees in some shade in your neighborhoods? So planting, maintenance, preservation, and engagement. And I'm highly
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Video proof that there was no response to LA's Pacific Palisades fire for 45 minutes. Terrific reporting here by @RichMcHugh @NewsNation https://t.co/LzxZDMfKnf
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Michael Valentine, a former U.S. attorney, and his wife witnessed a fire starting near their home in Pacific Palisades at 10:29 AM. His wife called 911 immediately, but they saw no response for about 45 minutes. Valentine documented the fire's rapid growth on video. By 10:50 AM, the fire had significantly expanded, and just eight minutes later, it doubled in size again, with no firefighting efforts in sight. Finally, at 11:13 AM, nearly 45 minutes after the initial call, a helicopter arrived, and by 11:23 AM, it began dropping water on the now massive fire, which was quickly spreading down the ridge.
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Speaker 0: They claim they didn't see any response until 45 minutes after they called 911. It's hard to believe, Elizabeth, but that's I wouldn't have believed it either until I saw the video, you know. Michael Valentine, he's a former US attorney for 8 years under Kamala Harris. He and his wife, they live at the top of Pacific Palisades right next to this ridge line where the fire broke out. He says his wife called at 10:29 AM Tuesday morning.
That's when they first saw it, and they didn't see anybody come for at least about a half an hour or 45 minutes before they drop some water. He documented it all on video giving NewsNation an exclusive look of where it started and how quickly it grew. By 10:50, the plume had spread considerably, twice as large. 8 minutes later, the size of the fire seems to have doubled yet again. Still nobody fighting the fire.
At 11:13 AM, nearly 45 minutes after Michael's wife called in the fire, you see a chopper come through. At 11:23, a helicopter comes in, begins to dump water on it. But at this point, the fire is massive and moving quickly down this ridge line.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Nothing could have been done to stop the catastrophic L.A. fires that killed 24, incinerated 12k homes, and cost $250B, say the media. Nonsense, says an LA firefighter. The failure by Newsom & Bass to mobilize firefighters before the fires began led to an avoidable catastrophe. https://t.co/bM7dgulyDn
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California, despite being the wealthiest state with high taxes, has cut funding for firefighting, directly impacting Los Angeles' ability to prevent catastrophic fires. Mayor Karen Bass claims budget cuts haven't affected fire response, but the LA Fire Chief contradicts this, stating the cuts have hindered operations. Response times have increased significantly, and staffing shortages lead to tragic outcomes. While California invests heavily in homelessness and climate initiatives, this spending has not effectively addressed the rising homelessness or fire risks, raising questions about budget priorities.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
California is the richest state with the highest taxes and yet it cut funding for firefighting, which led directly to L.A.'s catastrophic fires. Why? Because Newsom & Bass diverted billions from preventing and fighting catastrophic fires to migrants, homeless, and climate. https://t.co/FVckx9qaDU
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed her $17.5 million cut to the LA Fire Department budget did not impact the department’s ability to prevent or fight fires. But the LA Fire Chief told CNN that “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact” the Department’s ability to respond to the fires. And a video released yesterday by NewsNation, which was shot by a former employee of Kamala Harris, shows that it took the LA Fire Department 45 minutes to respond to the Pacific Palisades fire. “It could have been confined,” said attorney Michael Valentine. “It wouldn’t have touched any of the homes.” It is impossible to stop fires from starting in Los Angeles. The challenge is to put them out before they become catastrophic. And the video provides evidence that firefighters could have responded earlier. “ By 10:50, the plume had spread considerably, twice as large,” reported Rich McHugh. “Eight minutes later, the size of the fire seems to have doubled yet again. Still nobody fighting the fire. At 11:13 a.m., nearly 45 minutes after Michael's wife called in the fire, you see a chopper come through at 11:23. A helicopter comes in, begins to dump water on it. But at this point, the fire is massive and moving quickly down this ridgeline.” And now, a second firefighter has come forward to say that “There wasn’t sufficient funding for predeployment and I’m sure that played a role. The fire prevention department has taken huge cuts too and it limited their resources.” Specifically, this person said, “There were not enough mechanics, engines, or fire stations.” LA has been cutting the budget of the LA Fire Department for years, leading to rising response times.”You’re supposed to be in route in 30 seconds and there in three to five minutes, but now it’s 10 minutes and on the extreme end 30 minutes,” said the firefighter. “The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that took 30 minutes and there was a pediatric call two weeks ago and the station that was available was very far away and it took them a long time to get to the kid.” The whistleblower said staffing and equipment shortages create two tragedies. The first are unnecessary deaths and the second is the impact on the firefighters. “They just can’t make it to places fast enough and it’s a hazard to the public,” said the whistleblower. “A family member is dying and it’s 30 minutes to show up and then they’re yelling at the firefighters who are trying to do their job but there’s not enough of them. Some of that stuff really affects them.” The LA Fire Department budget is $820 million and significantly more is needed. The number of calls LA firefighters make in a year has tripled over the last 30 years while staffing has declined by one-third, according to another whistleblower. The LA Firefighters are currently owed significant backpay and have filed a lawsuit against the city. Said the whistleblower, “Nobody understands why this is going on. Why is there no money? Why can’t we pay people? We’re 80 fire stations short. Why aren’t we building them? Why aren’t we paying firefighters their contracted wages?” All of this is particularly mysterious because California is by far the richest state in the United States and has the highest taxes. The center of Big Tech, the most profitable industry in the world, and with an annual GDP of $3.8 trillion, California is the fifth-largest economy in the world. California has the highest income tax at 13.3 percent, the highest sales tax at 7.25 percent, and one of the highest corporatetaxes at 8.84%. Where is all the money going? While California’s firefighting budget rose since 2018, it was, obviously, not enough. And California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office reported that Governor Gavin Newsom slashed funding by $101 Million in the 2024 budget and cut millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and $12 million for home hardening. And the state funding that Newsom cut could have been used to harden homes to fire and reduce vegetation around homes in LA. Bass proposed cutting the Fire Department’s funding by an additional $48.8 million next year. The priorities of the leaders of California and Los Angeles over the last decade have been homelessness, climate change, and providing services to undocumented migrants, Since 2019, California has invested $27 billion in homelessness, or about 4.5 billion per year. That amount does not include spending on firefighting, police, or emergency medical services for the homeless. Nor does it include the $40 billion the state spent on affordable housing. California spends over $30 billion per year to provide benefits and services to migrants who came to the US illegally, according to a recent cost analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that they contribute up to $9 billion annually in state and local taxes. And California will spend over $48 billion on climate programs over the next seven years, or about seven billion annually. As such, California spends about $41.5 billion per year on the homeless, illegal immigrants, and climate change. If just 2% of that money, or $1 billion, had been spent on LA’s Fire Department, it could have more than doubled its budget. What’s more, there is evidence that all of that spending on homelessness made the problem worse. Since 2019, homelessness increased by 40%. And the homeless cause over half of all fires in Los Angeles. The spending has distorted other priorities... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, read the rest of the article, and watch the rest of the video! https://t.co/K3A3MfqCxz
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claims her $17.5 million budget cut to the LA Fire Department hasn't affected fire response. However, the LA fire chief states the cuts have severely impacted their ability to maintain equipment, with over 100 fire apparatus out of service and a need for more firefighters and stations. A recent video shows it took 45 minutes for firefighters to respond to a fire in Pacific Palisades, raising concerns about rising response times. Despite California's wealth and high taxes, funding for firefighting has been reduced, with Governor Newsom cutting $101 million from the budget. The focus on homelessness and climate change has diverted funds, leading to increased homelessness and fires. Critics argue that reallocating just a fraction of the spending on these issues could significantly enhance fire department resources.
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Speaker 0: Hey, everyone. It's Mike Schellenberger for public. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass claims that her $17,500,000 cut to the LA Fire department budget did not impact the department's ability to prevent or fight fires. However, the LA fire chief told CNN
Speaker 1: Let me be clear. The $17,000,000 budget cut and elimination of our civilian positions like our mechanics did and has has and will continue to severely impact our ability to repair our apparatus. We have over a 100 fire apparatus out of service. We do not have enough firefighters. We need 62 more fire stations.
Speaker 0: And a new video released yesterday by NewsNation, which was shot by a former employee of Kamala Harris, shows that it took the LA fire department 45 minutes to respond to the Pacific Palisades fire.
Speaker 1: They claimed they didn't see any response until 45 minutes after they called 911.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have believed it either until I saw the video. You know? Michael Valentine, he's a former US attorney for 8 years under Kamala Harris.
Speaker 3: I did not see any firefighters up there.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
Speaker 3: That's the question. I I don't know. I wish I knew the answer to that. I have no idea. I have no idea why that is.
It could have been confined. It wouldn't have touched any of the homes. You're talking to somebody that's been up in this community for 40 years, and I've seen fires, and there's always been a good response. I don't know what happened this time.
Speaker 0: Now it's impossible to stop fires from starting in Los Angeles. There's just too many causes and the city's too big. The challenge is to put them out before they become catastrophic, and the video provides strong evidence that firefighters could have responded earlier.
Speaker 2: He documented it all on video, giving NewsNation an exclusive look of where it started and how quickly it grew. By 10:50, the plume had spread considerably, twice as large. 8 minutes later, the size of the fire seems to have doubled yet again. There's still nobody fighting the fire. At 11:13 AM, nearly 45 minutes after Michael's wife called in the fire, you see a chopper come through.
At 11:23, a helicopter comes in, begins to dump water on it. But at this point, the fire is massive and moving quickly down this ridgeline.
Speaker 0: And now a second firefighter has come forward to tell me that there wasn't sufficient funding for predeployment, and I'm sure that played a role. The fire prevention department has taken huge cuts and it limits their resources. This person added that there were not enough mechanics, engines, or fire stations. In truth, LA has been under funding the budget of the LA Fire Department for years, leading to rising response times. You're supposed to be en route in 30 seconds and there in 3 to 5 minutes, but now it's 10 minutes.
And on the extreme end, 30 minutes, said the firefighter. The other day, they had a cardiac arrest call that took 30 minutes, and then there was a pediatric call 2 weeks ago, and the station that was available was very far away and it took them a long time to get to the kid. The whistleblower said that the budget, staffing, and equipment shortages create 2 tragedies. The first are unnecessary deaths and the second is the impact on the firefighters. They just can't make it to places fast enough and it's a hazard to the public, this person said.
A family member is dying and it's 30 minutes to show up, and then they're yelling at the firefighters who are trying to do their job, but there's just not enough of them. Some of that stuff really affects them. The LA Fire Department's budget is $820,000,000 and significantly more is needed. The number of calls LA firefighters make in a year has tripled over the last 30 years, while staffing has declined by 1 third according to another whistleblower. The LA firefighters are currently owed significant back pay and have filed a lawsuit against the city.
According to the new whistleblower, nobody understands why this is going on. Why is there no money? Why can't we pay people? We're 80 fire stations short. Why aren't we building them?
Why aren't we paying firefighters their contracted wages? Now all of this is particularly mysterious because California is by far the richest state in the United States and it has the highest taxes, the center of big tech, the most profitable industry in the world. And with an annual GDP of $3,800,000,000,000 California is the 5th largest economy in the world. California has the highest income tax at 13.3%, the highest sales tax at 7.25%, and one of the highest corporate taxes at 8.8%. So where is all the money going?
While California's firefighting budget rose since 2018, it was obviously not enough. And California's nonpartisan legislative analyst office reported that Governor Newsom actually slashed funding by $101,000,000 in the 2024 budget and cut 1,000,000 for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and 12,000,000 for home hardening. That funding that Newsom cut could have been used to harden homes in Los Angeles to fire and reduce the vegetation around those homes. BAS proposed cutting the fire department's budget by an additional 48,800,000 next year. The priorities of the leaders of California and Los Angeles over the last decade have been elsewhere on homelessness, climate change, and providing services to undocumented migrants.
Since 2019, California has invested $27,000,000,000 in homelessness, about $4,500,000,000 per year. That amount does not include spending on firefighting, police, or emergency medical services for the homeless, nor does it include the $40,000,000,000 the state spent on affordable housing. California spends over $30,000,000,000 per year to provide benefits and services to migrants who came to the United States illegally according to a recent cost analysis by the Federation For American Immigration Reform. The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that they contribute up to $9,000,000,000 annually in state and local taxes. California will spend over $48,000,000,000 on climate programs over the next 7 years, about $7,000,000,000 annually.
As such, California spends about $41,500,000,000 per year on homelessness, illegal migrants, and climate change. If just 2% of that money or $1,000,000,000 had been spent on the LA fire department, it could have more than doubled its budget. What's more, there is evidence that all of that spending on homelessness made the problem worse. Since 2019, homelessness increased by 40%, and the homeless caused over half of all fires in Los Angeles. The spending has also distorted other priorities.
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Nothing to see here, just California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2020 admitting to not preparing for fires “There’s no question that we have not done justice on our forest management. I don't think anyone disputes that.” Now the Pacific Palisades fires have destroyed LA https://t.co/Jq70hk0hk3
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I’m facing significant backlash as accusations of "legalized corruption" mount against me amid wildfires devastating the city. Allegations include endorsing a former councilor linked to hush money, awarding a high salary to a friend, and having council members involved in serious crimes. Critics claim I've turned the Department of Water and Power into a slush fund, with its CEO earning an exorbitant salary while essential services fail. As photos of me in Ghana circulate, many question my ability to lead a city engulfed in scandals and crisis.
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🚨🇺🇸LA MAYOR KAREN BASS ACCUSED OF "LEGALIZED CORRUPTION" She is facing intense backlash over a string of explosive scandals as wildfires ravage the city. Bass’ ties to corruption run deep. From pay-to-play donations to controversial allies, her leadership is being called into question. The allegations include endorsing a former councilor investigated over hush money payments for Congress, awarding a fat cat salary to a pal, and having council members accused of embezzlement, perjury, racketeering, tax evasion and bribes She’s been accused of turning LA’s Department of Water and Power into a slush fund, awarding its CEO a staggering $750K salary - nearly double the previous pay - while broken hydrants failed during the fires. As photos emerge of her sipping cocktails in Ghana while LA burned, many wonder if she’s lost control of a city drowning in scandals and flames. Source: NY Post
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While Los Angeles burned, LA Mayor Karen Bass was out of the country. Now, she’s claiming she’s investigating why no one stopped her from leaving. We have an LA Mayor's Office employee ON TAPE admitting why Bass fled Los Angeles. The truth is coming. Stay tuned.
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In a shocking hidden camera confession, LA Mayor's Office staffer Alex Boz admitted they were aware of impending wildfires but claimed there was nothing they could do, shifting blame to residents for their property conditions. He noted that fire-prone areas like Pacific Palisades were essentially "ticking time bombs." Meanwhile, LADWP Project Manager Angel Luna revealed that the Santa Ynez reservoir had been empty for a year, contributing to the water shortage during the fires. Both officials deflected questions about their responsibilities and the city's preparedness.
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SHOCKING HIDDEN CAMERA CONFESSION: LA Mayor Official Admits Office Knew Wildfires Were Coming, Claims There Was “Nothing They Could Do,” Blames Residents Who “Lost Everything”; LADWP Project Manager Confesses the Pacific Palisades Reservoir Was Empty for "A Year" “Their yards were out of code. Like, nobody gave a f*ck.” “How long was the reservoir empty?” “Like a year.”
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I'm Alexander Boss from the LA Mayor's office. We knew wildfires were a possibility, but there was nothing we could do. Many homes were out of code, like a time bomb waiting to happen. The Mayor was in Ghana working to establish a consulate for Los Angeles, integrating African countries for healthcare opportunities that benefit both economies.
Angel Luna from the Department of Water and Power admitted the water reservoir for Pacific Palisades was empty for a year due to a tear in the floating covers. I don't think it would have made a big impact. I also ignored mandatory water emergency command center training until after the fires. Residents' homes were destroyed and firefighters ran out of water.
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Speaker 0: A lot of the houses done, so, like, they were out of, like, three yards from the building. Really? Like, nobody gave up. This is, like, a long time, like, waiting to happen. It is it was just, like, a take your time off.
Speaker 1: Meet Alexander Boss, an official inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass. Boss discloses into our hidden camera that mayor Karen Bass's office knew these wildfires would happen and admits there was nothing the mayor's office could do to stop the fires.
Speaker 2: They really had no idea this fire was, like, a possibility.
Speaker 0: Of course, they didn't. But the thing is there's nothing they can do. But red flag warnings, like, it's been a big indication of fires. Yeah. So, of course, they did.
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Mayor Official tells her undercover journalist how mayor Karen Bass was overseas in Ghana trying to obtain a consulate for Los Angeles there while the city of Los Angeles was burning to the ground.
Speaker 3: What was the initial response when when
Speaker 2: this all happened? Like, the mayor wasn't
Speaker 0: in town. First of all, she wasn't just out there, like, partying it up with Bad Bunny. You know what I mean? Like, so she's out there, like, doing what
Speaker 4: we do. What is she doing?
Speaker 0: So right now, Ghana's trying to establish a cause for the Los Angeles. Yeah. One big plan of hers is to integrate, like, African countries to get possible health care, and that's, like, big, like, strategic goal on the other side.
Speaker 1: Our team wanted to investigate further, so we decided to look into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This led us to a guy named Angel Luna, and he admitted to us into our hidden cameras that the water reservoir that services Pacific Palisades was empty for nearly a year. Angel Luna also stated that the water wouldn't have made a big impact for the residents of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: So that reservoir, we went out of, like, took it out of service because there was a tear, like, on the floating covers.
Speaker 6: How long was the reservoir empty?
Speaker 4: It's like
Speaker 5: a year. Let's say we had, like, a, like,
Speaker 7: a little bit of notice.
Speaker 5: You can't slam through the reservoir.
Speaker 2: It's just, I guess, like, people ask questions like, oh, like, could it happen different if there was water in the reservoir? You know?
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have made that big of an impact because of the fact that you lost so many homes.
Speaker 1: This was Angel Luna's first date with her undercover journalist, and oddly, he revealed he was ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the water emergency command center.
Speaker 8: So you guys had a training?
Speaker 5: So it's the water emergency command center. There's something else ignoring, like, earlier this year. They're like, oh, here. Here's your training.
Speaker 1: Last month, Los Angeles, California saw devastating wildfires that led to over 12,000 homes being destroyed. Firefighters attempted to save those homes, but the firefighters ran out of water in the fire hydrants. With the tragic events, residents have been asking questions, demanding answers from their government. OMG decided to take matters into our own hands and obtain answers from local officials using hidden cameras. Meet Alexander Boss, an official inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass.
Alexander Boss specializes in international relations for Bass's office. He spoke about his role to one of our undercover journalists.
Speaker 0: I'm in the mayor's office of international. Okay. So we're, like, the social social welfare. So I'm not in, like, the homeless section, which I'm not interested. No.
So we deal with, like, all the consulates in the area. We deal with any foreign delegations that come into Los Angeles that wanna do, like, any sort of bilateral agreements or just kind of, like, make business easier between the residents here that are from there you know, or, actually, like, potential opportunities. Know? We meet with our deputy well, right now, we don't have one. But, usually, when we do have one, we meet with our once or twice a week, like, the whole team.
Then we have a round table, and we talk about what we're working on. And it's cool, and it's fun.
Speaker 1: Boss discloses into our hidden camera that mayor Karen Bass's office knew these wildfires would happen and admits there was nothing the mayor's office could do to stop the fires.
Speaker 2: They really had no idea this fire was, like, a possibility.
Speaker 0: Of course, they did. But the thing is there's nothing they can do. But around five mornings, like, it's been a big indication of fires. Yeah. So at first, they did.
Speaker 1: Currently, Alexander Boss from the Los Angeles mayor's office works with the victims of the LA wildfires. Boss goes on to blame the spreading of the fires on the residents for their, quote, homes being out of code. Bozz also saying, quote, nobody gave a fuck.
Speaker 2: How was that? Today with the fires and helping people?
Speaker 0: It was it was okay. It's just crazy, like, these because these people, like, they've literally, like, they've lost everything. Like, people are, like, literally breaking down into tears. It's all we're, like, just we're trying to sign them in, like, get them, like, the service that they need. Yeah.
Yeah. It's really bad.
Speaker 2: Victims from policies or everybody. I don't know. Policies, everybody. But
Speaker 0: the other thing too No. I see that. Like, with this fire, like, a lot of these a lot of the houses there, and so, like, they were out of like, their yards were out
Speaker 5: of code. No.
Speaker 2: Out of what?
Speaker 0: Out of code. Like, nobody gave them I don't know. Like, this is, like, a long time, like, waiting to happen. It is it was just, like, a taking time bomb. But, like, the house is, they there's supposed to be, like, a certain amount of feet apart too.
Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's hard. Yeah. It
Speaker 0: just wasn't built the way it should have been.
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Speaker 3: So what was the initial response when that when this
Speaker 2: all happened? Like, like, what because the mayor wasn't in town. So
Speaker 0: here's the thing.
Speaker 2: There's just been so much conflict and it's amazing.
Speaker 5: Right. So here's the thing. So we're we're trying to
Speaker 0: first of all, she wasn't just out there, like, partying it up with Bad Bunny. You know what I mean? Like, so she was out there, like, doing work
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 4: And What does she do?
Speaker 0: So right now, Donna's trying to establish a cause for the Los Angeles. Yeah. One big plan of hers is to integrate, like, African countries to get funds for what's out there, and it's not like they're charity cases. Like, we're not doing using city funds to do this. And, also, like, this is, like, mutually beneficial.
So, like, it benefits both our economy and their Yeah. So that's what we're that's, like, a big, like, strategic goal of the office.
Speaker 2: Do you think, like, do you think that, like, prioritizing, like, minorities and stuff is priority of the mayor's office? Like
Speaker 0: I mean, in general, yes.
Speaker 1: The official inside the mayor's office said that president Trump's order to release water from the Central Valley in California was, quote, dumb and not real.
Speaker 0: Trump turned the water back on through the military, like I mean, that was on the news, but Yeah. So think that was funny. Didn't think it was funny. I thought it was dumb.
Speaker 2: It was dumb? Yeah. That he's giving us water?
Speaker 1: No. No.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's real?
Speaker 0: Yeah. It's not real. All I know is there's a lot of misinformation coming out from TikTok.
Speaker 1: Our team wanted to investigate further, we decided to look into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This led us to a guy named Angel Luna, a project matter for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Angel spoke to our undercover journalist about his role for that department.
Speaker 5: But normally, I I just I'm I'm a project manager for on the water side. So this it's funny enough that the same people that are my bosses are still the same people the people I work with are the same people that I'm working with in this emergency room. Yeah. There's like a bunch of legal holes, but I'm basically like running around just making sure that people got what they need. So I'm setting them like I see like four, five, five locations.
I'm setting up like more up like four more to distribute water.
Speaker 2: Distribute water?
Speaker 5: Drinking water. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. It's gonna be all day.
Speaker 2: Do they do people
Speaker 9: work from home
Speaker 2: at the
Speaker 5: time or just Oh, no. Like a couple days out of the week. No. Actually, three days out of the week.
Speaker 1: Now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project manager admitted to us into our hidden cameras that the water reservoir that services Pacific Palisades was empty for nearly a year. Angel Luna also stated that the water wouldn't have made a big impact for the residents of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It's like everybody is just kind of like, what happened?
Speaker 5: So that reservoir, we're not as like, we took it out of service because there is a tear, like, on the floating covers, like, I don't know. It's, a billion dollars or so because of that floating cover to repair or something like that. But then we like, that the coverage rated for, twenty five years.
Speaker 6: How long is the reservoir empty?
Speaker 5: It's like a year. Also, even though like like let's say we had
Speaker 7: like a like a little bit of notice,
Speaker 5: you can't slam fill the reservoir. You can't just like, oh, we got a we got water.
Speaker 2: It's just I guess like people ask questions like, like could it happen different if there was water in the reservoir?
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have made that big of an impact because of the fact that you lost so many homes.
Speaker 2: Oh, is there not enough water? Like, what's the
Speaker 5: Oh, there's enough water.
Speaker 2: There is enough water? I
Speaker 5: have more than enough water.
Speaker 2: They they have been what? Repairs or
Speaker 5: Kind of. But because it's like it's continual thing but what? It's like the winds hit pretty hard this year. Yeah. We weren't expecting this.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you think it could have helped if there was water and fire hydrants. Hydrants.
Speaker 5: They were also breaking our equipment.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think everyone's just like, k. We need more water. We them.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But yeah.
Speaker 8: Mean, we live
Speaker 5: in a desert. It's it's all in the rain here.
Speaker 1: Our team spoke to two National Guard members who admitted governor Newsom did not fill the reservoirs and confirmed the hydrants were empty when the fires were raging.
Speaker 5: I saw that, the fire hydrants.
Speaker 10: There's no water coming
Speaker 0: out of
Speaker 5: it, bro. Why? Well, I mean, the governor decided not to do reservoir shit. They didn't have water in the hydrants. No.
They didn't. No. Why? We've been here since the tenth. It's been it's pretty bad.
It is bad. It it's the situation is is it's over.
Speaker 1: This was Angel Luna's first date with her undercover journalist, and oddly, he revealed he was ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the water emergency command center. The training teaches him what to do in emergency situations. Luna goes on to say he did the training after the LA wildfires occurred, and he admitted that he doesn't do his job.
Speaker 5: So it's the water emergency command center, and it's like it's incident incident command system structure, which it's it's like it's something like there's something else ignoring like earlier this year. They're like, oh, here here's your training. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks.
Speaker 9: Did you
Speaker 5: do it? No. No boss. Alright. Cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah. So you guys had a training?
Speaker 5: Yeah. So then I got a reminder even though like I'm a supervisor and told that like, alright. Like you gotta do this. So like I I gave it like the college trials like oh, this is super dry because a robot voice is reading this to me. So like yeah.
Like I tried doing it. Was like, I'm gonna just print it print it out. I'm gonna try doing the test at the end so I just do it. I was like, no, it didn't work. Right?
But then after getting thrown into it and seeing like what it is within real time, it's like, oh, now all this makes sense. So I went back and did all
Speaker 2: of them. Oh my god. Yeah. Were you guys required to do that type of stuff?
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Speaker 10: So we're here in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. And as you see, we're in front of the disaster that happened a couple weeks ago due to the fires that were raging here. We spoke to some of the residents from Los Angeles. Here's part of our conversation.
Speaker 11: I worked at a preschool in the Palisades, and I was actually there.
Speaker 10: What was a preschool?
Speaker 11: Pali Press. Yeah. And I was there the day that the fires happened, and so we had to evacuate all the children.
Speaker 10: What do you guys think of the mayor?
Speaker 11: I don't think her actions were what they could have been during the time of the fire.
Speaker 5: Mainly, I've seen a lot of different fires starting up from, like, different random people, like Arsonists? Yeah. I I do feel like Gavin Newsom was a big part of not being able to get it extinguished.
Speaker 12: We did a kick ass job.
Speaker 10: You like Karen Bass?
Speaker 12: Kick ass. Yes.
Speaker 10: Did. Why did she do a kick ass job?
Speaker 12: She's trying to get what she can and she's working with all the BS that the other people above are giving her crap for.
Speaker 10: There's only three houses on my street that survived and mine was one of them. Who would you blame? Probably the mayor because the reservoirs weren't filled out.
Speaker 13: We also got the chance to speak to Steve Slipsevik, the CEO and founder of Strategic Response Partners. SRP is a network of experienced disaster management professionals who serve property owners in nearly all aspects of disaster preparation, response, and recovery. SRP has been on the ground in LA helping local homeowners. Steve told us that firefighters were sent into the battle with no bullets.
Speaker 9: And those firefighters that do an excellent job, it's not their fault. They're ready to go. And when they show up at a battlefield with no bullets, responsibility goes right to the top. People say, well, even if we had a lot of trucks, we couldn't stop it. That's interesting.
We do private fire. Every structure that we stood up, we saved.
Speaker 13: We showed Steve the hidden camera footage from the LA mayor's official, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 9: The mayor's put in a position to protect the residents, to provide opportunities, economic opportunities in those neighborhoods. Right? That's what the mayor's position is.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: So it's a failure on government, hands down. You expect that the resident who maybe moved in here from Germany or somewhere else knows what a red flag warning is? Because I don't care what you say at the end of the day, results don't lie. And based on results, no water in the reservoirs, no water at the hydrants. That's right.
Right? Apparatus, engines in the boneyard with no parts.
Speaker 10: We caught up with Alexander Bowes, international relations staffer from LA Mayor Karen Bass, and here's how it went. Alex? Hi. Hey. You work for mayor Karen Bass.
Is that correct? Oh. I'd like to talk to you about some of the comments you made. I don't. This is you on hidden camera right here.
You spoke about how the houses were out of code for the Pacific Palisades residence. Is that right? Is that you? Do you work for Karen Bass? I know you're not mute.
You talk to her all the time. This is you on on camera. Alex. Alright. I'm gonna call the police.
Call the police. I'm a journalist. It's the first amendment. We're asking questions about the comments you said on hidden camera. Bring them.
Speaker 0: If you could please, like
Speaker 10: Is this you with mayor Karen Bass? Why was she in Ghana when houses were being deleted by the fires? No comment. Do you have you met the mayor? No.
Yes. You did. Are you lying?
Speaker 0: I'm not lying. Okay. You know what? No comment.
Speaker 10: So why was she in Ghana? You said she was partying with Bad Bunny. Who was she partying with? Alex. Where are you going?
Alex, you said the president getting water for Los Angeles was dumb. Why is it dumb to give water to people? Those are your words. Sir, do you think it's dumb for people to have water? Where are you going?
Do you know where you parked? You said that the office knew that the fires were coming because of red flag indications. You said there was nothing that they could do. Do you think the mayor is responsible for the fires? Alex, what do you think the residents will think of your comments?
Sir, Alexander Boz, international relations mayor's office threatening to call the cops on a journalist for asking questions. Let's get a shot of him, please. So we're calling Angel Luna, a project manager from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for his comments to an undercover journalist. You spoke to our undercover journalist just a few weeks ago about how the Santa Ynez water reservoir was not full. I'd like to get your comment on the record about that.
Speaker 14: You would actually have to, speak to our legal representation, but
Speaker 10: Well, you I have you on hidden camera speaking about how you're blaming the LA Firefighters for breaking the equipment, and that's why they don't have water in the fire hydrants. What's your comment?
Speaker 14: Once again, I would still need to run this through legal.
Speaker 10: And why didn't you do your emergency water command training when you spoke to our undercover journalists? Then you did it after the fire. Why did you do that?
Speaker 14: Once again, I would need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to hear from you. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 14: Well, once again, I will need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: What do you think the LA residents will see and think of when they see that you're saying that I didn't do my training, you're blaming the firefighters, there was no water in the fire hydrants. What's going on there, Angel?
Speaker 14: Once again, I'll still need to speak to my legal representation.
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to talk to I know. Let's talk let's have a conversation about this, Angel. I think it's pretty damning to say these things, and you don't have water in the reservoir. People's houses were burning down. Y'all didn't have water.
So what's going on, Angel?
Speaker 14: Once again, thanks for approaching me on this, but I will still need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: And when can I hear back from you on that? You said you're gonna speak to them. When are you gonna come back to me on that?
Speaker 14: I will not be coming back to you. You could speak to legal patient. Thank you.
Speaker 10: Okay. Alright. Well, last question I have for you, and he hung up. Angel Luna, LADWP project manager.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing a lot of follow-up reporting on the fires in Los Angeles, on the statements made by these officials. If you're on the inside of any government agency in California or anywhere in Los Angeles, you know who to call. Our signal number is (914) 491-9395. Our email address tips@okeefmediagroup.com. Our reporters are standing by.
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“Red flag warnings, like, it's a big indication of fires. So, of course they did,” admitted Alex Boz, an international relations staffer for the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, acknowledging that the Office was fully aware of the devastating fires before they occurred. When pressed on the issue, Boz dismissed any responsibility, reiterating, “Of course they did,” referring to the LA Mayor’s Office knowing the fires were coming, “But the thing is, there’s nothing they can do.” When discussing fire-prone areas like Pacific Palisades, Boz stated, “They've lost everything,” shifting the blame onto homeowners: “Their yards were out of code. Like, nobody gave a f*ck.” He continued, “The houses, like, they're supposed to be, like, a certain amount of feet apart, too.” Boz dismissed the destruction as inevitable, saying, “It was just, like, a ticking time bomb.” “Firefighters… just didn’t have enough [water],” said Angel Luna, Project Manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (@LADWP), regarding the critical water shortage during the fires that ravaged the region. When asked how long the Santa Ynez reservoir had been empty before the fires, Luna confessed, “a year,” highlighting LADWP’s failure to take preventive measures, leaving the region vulnerable to disaster. According to Luna, part of the problem stemmed from firefighters damaging LADWP equipment: “They [firefighters] were also breaking our equipment,” he stated. Luna also admitted to ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the Water Emergency Command Center. “It was something that I was ignoring like earlier this year,” Luna confessed. He later revealed he completed his training “after the fact,” only after the devastation had already hit. When confronted about his statements on hidden camera, Alex Boz repeatedly responded with “no comment” when asked about Mayor Bass’s actions, the city’s unpreparedness for wildfires, and his dismissive remarks about President Trump’s water policies. Angel Luna also refused to answer direct questions regarding the year-long depletion of the San Ynez Reservoir. Pressed on his claims that LA firefighters damaged equipment, contributing to the critical water shortage during the fires, Luna repeatedly deflected, insisting, “I would need to speak to legal representation.” When asked why emergency water command training only took place after the fires, Luna gave the same response. Despite being reminded of the public outrage over LADWP’s failure to provide water while homes burned, Luna refused to engage, ultimately stating, “I will not be coming back to you," before hanging up. @LAFD @LACity @LACOFD @SteveSlepcevic
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WOW 🚨 James O'Keefe just got evidence California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass KNEW THE FIRES WERE COMING The real reason Karen Bass was busy in Ghana, Africa is she was obtaining a contract TO INTEGRATE MORE AFRICANS INTO CALIFORNIA https://t.co/OJH0TcF4va
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As an official in Mayor Karen Bass's office, I knew the wildfires were a possibility but admitted there was nothing we could do. I mentioned the mayor was in Ghana working to establish a consulate for Los Angeles, aiming to integrate African countries for potential healthcare benefits. I also said that many of the homes that burned were out of code, and it was like a "ticking time bomb."
As a project manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, I admitted that the water reservoir for Pacific Palisades was empty for about a year due to a tear in the floating covers. I don't think it would have made a big impact during the fires, and also admitted to ignoring mandatory water emergency command center training initially.
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Speaker 0: A lot of the houses done, so, like, they were out of, like, three yards from the building. Really? Like, nobody gave up. This is, like, a long time, like, waiting to happen. It is it was just, like, a take your time off.
Speaker 1: Meet Alexander Boss, an official inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass. Boss discloses into our hidden camera that mayor Karen Bass's office knew these wildfires would happen and admits there was nothing the mayor's office could do to stop the fires.
Speaker 2: They really had no idea this fire was, like, a possibility.
Speaker 0: Of course, they didn't. But the thing is there's nothing they can do. But red flag warnings, like, it's been a big indication of fires. Yeah. So, of course, they did.
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Mayor Official tells her undercover journalist how mayor Karen Bass was overseas in Ghana trying to obtain a consulate for Los Angeles there while the city of Los Angeles was burning to the ground.
Speaker 3: What was the initial response when when
Speaker 2: this all happened? Like, the mayor wasn't
Speaker 0: in town. First of all, she wasn't just out there, like, partying it up with Bad Bunny. You know what I mean? Like, so she's out there, like, doing what
Speaker 4: we do. What is she doing?
Speaker 0: So right now, Ghana's trying to establish a cause for the Los Angeles. Yeah. One big plan of hers is to integrate, like, African countries to get possible health care, and that's, like, big, like, strategic goal on the other side.
Speaker 1: Our team wanted to investigate further, so we decided to look into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This led us to a guy named Angel Luna, and he admitted to us into our hidden cameras that the water reservoir that services Pacific Palisades was empty for nearly a year. Angel Luna also stated that the water wouldn't have made a big impact for the residents of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: So that reservoir, we went out of, like, took it out of service because there was a tear, like, on the floating covers.
Speaker 6: How long was the reservoir empty?
Speaker 4: It's like
Speaker 5: a year. Let's say we had, like, a, like,
Speaker 7: a little bit of notice.
Speaker 5: You can't slam through the reservoir.
Speaker 2: It's just, I guess, like, people ask questions like, oh, like, could it happen different if there was water in the reservoir? You know?
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have made that big of an impact because of the fact that you lost so many homes.
Speaker 1: This was Angel Luna's first date with her undercover journalist, and oddly, he revealed he was ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the water emergency command center.
Speaker 8: So you guys had a training?
Speaker 5: So it's the water emergency command center. There's something else ignoring, like, earlier this year. They're like, oh, here. Here's your training.
Speaker 1: Last month, Los Angeles, California saw devastating wildfires that led to over 12,000 homes being destroyed. Firefighters attempted to save those homes, but the firefighters ran out of water in the fire hydrants. With the tragic events, residents have been asking questions, demanding answers from their government. OMG decided to take matters into our own hands and obtain answers from local officials using hidden cameras. Meet Alexander Boss, an official inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass.
Alexander Boss specializes in international relations for Bass's office. He spoke about his role to one of our undercover journalists.
Speaker 0: I'm in the mayor's office of international. Okay. So we're, like, the social social welfare. So I'm not in, like, the homeless section, which I'm not interested. No.
So we deal with, like, all the consulates in the area. We deal with any foreign delegations that come into Los Angeles that wanna do, like, any sort of bilateral agreements or just kind of, like, make business easier between the residents here that are from there you know, or, actually, like, potential opportunities. Know? We meet with our deputy well, right now, we don't have one. But, usually, when we do have one, we meet with our once or twice a week, like, the whole team.
Then we have a round table, and we talk about what we're working on. And it's cool, and it's fun.
Speaker 1: Boss discloses into our hidden camera that mayor Karen Bass's office knew these wildfires would happen and admits there was nothing the mayor's office could do to stop the fires.
Speaker 2: They really had no idea this fire was, like, a possibility.
Speaker 0: Of course, they did. But the thing is there's nothing they can do. But around five mornings, like, it's been a big indication of fires. Yeah. So at first, they did.
Speaker 1: Currently, Alexander Boss from the Los Angeles mayor's office works with the victims of the LA wildfires. Boss goes on to blame the spreading of the fires on the residents for their, quote, homes being out of code. Bozz also saying, quote, nobody gave a fuck.
Speaker 2: How was that? Today with the fires and helping people?
Speaker 0: It was it was okay. It's just crazy, like, these because these people, like, they've literally, like, they've lost everything. Like, people are, like, literally breaking down into tears. It's all we're, like, just we're trying to sign them in, like, get them, like, the service that they need. Yeah.
Yeah. It's really bad.
Speaker 2: Victims from policies or everybody. I don't know. Policies, everybody. But
Speaker 0: the other thing too No. I see that. Like, with this fire, like, a lot of these a lot of the houses there, so, like, they were out of like, their yards were out
Speaker 5: of code. No.
Speaker 2: Out of what?
Speaker 0: Out of code. Like, nobody gave them I don't know. Like, this is, like, a long time, like, waiting to happen. It is it was just, like, a taking time bomb. But, like, the house is, they there's supposed to be, like, a certain amount of feet apart too.
Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's hard. Yeah. It
Speaker 0: just wasn't built the way it should have been.
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Speaker 3: So what was the initial response when that when this
Speaker 2: all happened? Like, like, what because the mayor wasn't in town. So
Speaker 0: here's the thing.
Speaker 2: There's just been so much conflict and it's amazing.
Speaker 5: Right. So here's the thing. So we're we're trying to
Speaker 0: first of all, she wasn't just out there, like, partying it up with Bad Bunny. You know what I mean? Like, so she was out there, like, doing work
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 4: And What does she do?
Speaker 0: So right now, Donna's trying to establish a cause for the Los Angeles. Yeah. One big plan of hers is to integrate, like, African countries to get funds for what's out there, and it's not like they're charity cases. Like, we're not doing using city funds to do this. And, also, like, this is, like, mutually beneficial.
So, like, it benefits both our economy and their Yeah. So that's what we're that's, like, a big, like, strategic goal of the office.
Speaker 2: Do you think, like, do you think that, like, prioritizing, like, minorities and stuff is priority of the mayor's office? Like
Speaker 0: I mean, in general, yes.
Speaker 1: The official inside the mayor's office said that president Trump's order to release water from the Central Valley in California was, quote, dumb and not real.
Speaker 0: Trump turned the water back on through the military, like I mean, that was on the news. But Yeah. So think that was funny. Didn't think it was funny. I thought it was dumb.
Speaker 2: It was dumb? Yeah. That he's giving us water?
Speaker 1: No. No.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's real?
Speaker 0: Yeah. It's not real. All I know is there's a lot of misinformation coming out from TikTok.
Speaker 1: Our team wanted to investigate further, we decided to look into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This led us to a guy named Angel Luna, a project matter for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Angel spoke to our undercover journalist about his role for that department.
Speaker 5: But normally, I I just I'm I'm a project manager for on the water side. So this it's funny enough that the same people that are my bosses are still the same people the people I work with are the same people that I'm working with in this emergency room. Yeah. There's like a bunch of legal holes, but I'm basically like running around just making sure that people got what they need. So I'm setting them like I see like four, five, five locations.
I'm setting up like more up like four more to distribute water.
Speaker 2: Distribute water?
Speaker 5: Drinking water. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. It's gonna be all day.
Speaker 2: Do they do people
Speaker 9: work from home
Speaker 2: at the
Speaker 5: time or just Oh, no. Like a couple days out of the week. No. Actually, three days out of the week.
Speaker 1: Now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project manager admitted to us into our hidden cameras that the water reservoir that services Pacific Palisades was empty for nearly a year. Angel Luna also stated that the water wouldn't have made a big impact for the residents of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It's like everybody is just kind of like, what happened?
Speaker 5: So that reservoir, we're not as like, we took it out of service because there is a tear, like, on the floating covers, like, I don't know. It's, a billion dollars or so because of that floating cover to repair or something like that. But then we like, that the coverage rated for, twenty five years.
Speaker 6: How long is the reservoir empty?
Speaker 5: It's like a year. Also, even though like like let's say we had
Speaker 7: like a like a little bit of notice,
Speaker 5: you can't slam fill the reservoir. You can't just like, oh, we got a we got water.
Speaker 2: It's just I guess like people ask questions like, like could it happen different if there was water in the reservoir?
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have made that big of an impact because of the fact that you lost so many homes.
Speaker 2: Oh, is there not enough water? Like, what's the
Speaker 5: Oh, there's enough water.
Speaker 2: There is enough water? I
Speaker 5: have more than enough water.
Speaker 2: They they have been what? Repairs or
Speaker 5: Kind of. But because it's like it's continual thing but what? It's like the winds hit pretty hard this year. Yeah. We weren't expecting this.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you think it could have helped if there was water and fire hydrants. Hydrants.
Speaker 5: They were also breaking our equipment.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think everyone's just like, k. We need more water. We them.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But yeah. I mean,
Speaker 0: we live
Speaker 5: in a desert. It's it's all in the rain here.
Speaker 1: Our team spoke to two National Guard members who admitted governor Newsom did not fill the reservoirs and confirmed the hydrants were empty when the fires were raging.
Speaker 5: I saw that, the fire hydrants.
Speaker 10: There's no water coming
Speaker 0: out of
Speaker 5: it, bro. Why? Well, I mean, the governor decided not to do reservoir shit. They didn't have water in the hydrants. No.
They didn't. No. Why? We've been here since the tenth. It's been it's pretty bad.
It is bad. It it's the situation is is it's over.
Speaker 1: This was Angel Luna's first date with her undercover journalist, and oddly, he revealed he was ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the water emergency command center. The training teaches him what to do in emergency situations. Luna goes on to say he did the training after the LA wildfires occurred, and he admitted that he doesn't do his job.
Speaker 5: So it's the water emergency command center, and it's like it's incident incident command system structure, which it's it's like it's something like there's something else ignoring like earlier this year. They're like, oh, here here's your training. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks.
Speaker 9: Did you
Speaker 5: do it? No. No boss. Alright. Cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah. So you guys had a training?
Speaker 5: Yeah. So then I got a reminder even though like I'm a supervisor and told that like, alright. Like you gotta do this. So like I I gave it like the college trials like oh, this is super dry because a robot voice is reading this to me. So like yeah.
Like I tried doing it. Was like, I'm gonna just print it print it out. I'm gonna try doing the test at the end so I just do it. I was like, no, it didn't work. Right?
But then after getting thrown into it and seeing like what it is within real time, it's like, oh, now all this makes sense. So I went back and did all
Speaker 2: of them. Oh my god. Yeah. Were you guys required to do that type of stuff?
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Speaker 10: So we're here in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. And as you see, we're in front of the disaster that happened a couple weeks ago due to the fires that were raging here. We spoke to some of the residents from Los Angeles. Here's part of our conversation.
Speaker 11: I worked at a preschool in the Palisades, and I was actually there.
Speaker 10: What was a preschool?
Speaker 11: Pali Press. Yeah. And I was there the day that the fires happened, and so we had to evacuate all the children.
Speaker 10: What do you guys think of the mayor?
Speaker 11: I don't think her actions were what they could have been during the time of the fire.
Speaker 5: Mainly, I've seen a lot of different fires starting up from, like, different random people, like Arsonists? Yeah. I I do feel like Gavin Newsom was a big part of not being able to get it extinguished.
Speaker 12: We did a kick ass job.
Speaker 10: You like Karen Bass?
Speaker 12: Kick ass. Yes.
Speaker 10: Did. Why did she do a kick ass job?
Speaker 12: She's trying to get what she can and she's working with all the BS that the other people above are giving her crap for.
Speaker 10: There's only three houses on my street that survived and mine was one of them. Who would you blame? Probably the mayor because the reservoirs weren't filled out.
Speaker 13: We also got the chance to speak to Steve Slipsevik, the CEO and founder of Strategic Response Partners. SRP is a network of experienced disaster management professionals who serve property owners in nearly all aspects of disaster preparation, response, and recovery. SRP has been on the ground in LA helping local homeowners. Steve told us that firefighters were sent into the battle with no bullets.
Speaker 9: And those firefighters that do an excellent job, it's not their fault. They're ready to go. And when they show up at a battlefield with no bullets, responsibility goes right to the top. People say, well, even if we had a lot of trucks, we couldn't stop it. That's interesting.
We do private fire. Every structure that we stood up, we saved.
Speaker 13: We showed Steve the hidden camera footage from the LA mayor's official, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 9: The mayor's put in a position to protect the residents, to provide opportunities, economic opportunities in those neighborhoods. Right? That's what the mayor's position is.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: So it's a failure on government, hands down. You expect that the resident who maybe moved in here from Germany or somewhere else knows what a red flag warning is? Because I don't care what you say at the end of the day, results don't lie. And based on results, no water in the reservoirs, no water at the hydrants. That's right.
Right? Apparatus, engines in the boneyard with no parts.
Speaker 10: We caught up with Alexander Bowes, international relations staffer from LA Mayor Karen Bass, and here's how it went. Alex? Hi. Hey. You work for mayor Karen Bass.
Is that correct? Oh. I'd like to talk to you about some of the comments you made. I don't. This is you on hidden camera right here.
You spoke about how the houses were out of code for the Pacific Palisades residence. Is that right? Is that you? Do you work for Karen Bass? I know you're not mute.
You talk to her all the time. This is you on on camera. Alex. Alright. I'm gonna call the police.
Call the police. I'm a journalist. It's the first amendment. We're asking questions about the comments you said on hidden camera. Bring them.
Speaker 0: If you could please, like
Speaker 10: Is this you with mayor Karen Bass? Why was she in Ghana when houses were being deleted by the fires? No comment. Do you have you met the mayor? No.
Yes. You did. Are you lying?
Speaker 0: I'm not lying. Okay. You know what? No comment.
Speaker 10: So why was she in Ghana? You said she was partying with Bad Bunny. Who was she partying with? Alex. Where are you going?
Alex, you said the president getting water for Los Angeles was dumb. Why is it dumb to give water to people? Those are your words. Sir, do you think it's dumb for people to have water? Where are you going?
Do you know where you parked? You said that the office knew that the fires were coming because of red flag indications. You said there was nothing that they could do. Do you think the mayor is responsible for the fires? Alex, what do you think the residents will think of your comments?
Sir, Alexander Boz, international relations mayor's office threatening to call the cops on a journalist for asking questions. Let's get a shot of him, please. So we're calling Angel Luna, a project manager from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for his comments to an undercover journalist. You spoke to our undercover journalist just a few weeks ago about how the Santa Ynez water reservoir was not full. I'd like to get your comment on the record about that.
Speaker 14: You would actually have to, speak to our legal representation, but
Speaker 10: Well, you I have you on hidden camera speaking about how you're blaming the LA Firefighters for breaking the equipment, and that's why they don't have water in the fire hydrants. What's your comment?
Speaker 14: Once again, I would still need to run this through legal.
Speaker 10: And why didn't you do your emergency water command training when you spoke to our undercover journalists? Then you did it after the fire. Why did you do that?
Speaker 14: Once again, I would need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to hear from you. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 14: Well, once again, I will need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: What do you think the LA residents will see and think of when they see that you're saying that I didn't do my training, you're blaming the firefighters, there was no water in the fire hydrants. What's going on there, Angel?
Speaker 14: Once again, I'll still need to speak to my legal representation.
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to talk to I know. Let's talk let's have a conversation about this, Angel. I think it's pretty damning to say these things, and you don't have water in the reservoir. People's houses were burning down. Y'all didn't have water.
So what's going on, Angel?
Speaker 14: Once again, thanks for approaching me on this, but I will still need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: And when can I hear back from you on that? You said you're gonna speak to them. When are you gonna come back to me on that?
Speaker 14: I will not be coming back to you. You could speak to legal patient. Thank you.
Speaker 10: Okay. Alright. Well, last question I have for you, and he hung up. Angel Luna, LADWP project manager.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing a lot of follow-up reporting on the fires in Los Angeles, on the statements made by these officials. If you're on the inside of any government agency in California or anywhere in Los Angeles, you know who to call. Our signal number is (914) 491-9395. Our email address tips@okeefmediagroup.com. Our reporters are standing by.
We are hot on the story here in California and elsewhere deep within the desert. Stay tuned next week for a follow-up. We'll get back to you. Be brave. And as always, our price is our life.
Stay tuned.
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This is so bad…. Newsome & Bass knew LA fires were coming What’s worse… While fires raged, Bass was in Ghana chasing a contract to create an African Consulate in CA, in order to bring more African immigrants here. OMG @JamesOKeefeIII https://t.co/TNwAVAkAeq
Video Transcript AI Summary
I'm Alexander Boss from LA Mayor Karen Bass's office. We knew wildfires were a possibility, but there was nothing we could do. The mayor was in Ghana working to establish a consulate for Los Angeles. Regarding the fires, many homes were out of code.
Angel Luna from the Department of Water and Power admitted the Pacific Palisades reservoir was empty for a year due to a tear in the floating covers, but he doesn't think it would have made a difference. I also ignored mandatory water emergency command center training until after the fires.
National Guard members confirmed the governor didn't fill reservoirs, and hydrants were empty during the fires.
I was approached about these comments and threatened to call the cops on the journalist. Luna said he would need to speak to legal representation.
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Speaker 0: A lot of the houses done, so, like, they were out of, like, three yards from the building. Really? Like, nobody gave up. This is, like, a long time, like, waiting to happen. It is it was just, like, a take your time off.
Speaker 1: Meet Alexander Boss, an official inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass. Boss discloses into our hidden camera that mayor Karen Bass's office knew these wildfires would happen and admits there was nothing the mayor's office could do to stop the fires.
Speaker 2: They really had no idea this fire was, like, a possibility.
Speaker 0: Of course, they didn't. But the thing is there's nothing they can do. But red flag warnings, like, it's been a big indication of fires. Yeah. So, of course, they did.
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Mayor Official tells her undercover journalist how mayor Karen Bass was overseas in Ghana trying to obtain a consulate for Los Angeles there while the city of Los Angeles was burning to the ground.
Speaker 3: What was the initial response when when
Speaker 2: this all happened? Like, the mayor wasn't
Speaker 0: in town. First of all, she wasn't just out there, like, partying it up with Bad Bunny. You know what I mean? Like, so she's out there, like, doing what
Speaker 4: we do. What is she doing?
Speaker 0: So right now, Ghana's trying to establish a cause for the Los Angeles. Yeah. One big plan of hers is to integrate, like, African countries to get possible health care, and that's, like, big, like, strategic goal on the other side.
Speaker 1: Our team wanted to investigate further, so we decided to look into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This led us to a guy named Angel Luna, and he admitted to us into our hidden cameras that the water reservoir that services Pacific Palisades was empty for nearly a year. Angel Luna also stated that the water wouldn't have made a big impact for the residents of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: So that reservoir, we went out of, like, took it out of service because there was a tear, like, on the floating covers.
Speaker 6: How long was the reservoir empty?
Speaker 4: It's like
Speaker 5: a year. Let's say we had, like, a, like,
Speaker 7: a little bit of notice.
Speaker 5: You can't slam through the reservoir.
Speaker 2: It's just, I guess, like, people ask questions like, oh, like, could it happen different if there was water in the reservoir? You know?
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have made that big of an impact because of the fact that you lost so many homes.
Speaker 1: This was Angel Luna's first date with her undercover journalist, and oddly, he revealed he was ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the water emergency command center.
Speaker 8: So you guys had a training?
Speaker 5: So it's the water emergency command center. There's something else ignoring, like, earlier this year. They're like, oh, here. Here's your training.
Speaker 1: Last month, Los Angeles, California saw devastating wildfires that led to over 12,000 homes being destroyed. Firefighters attempted to save those homes, but the firefighters ran out of water in the fire hydrants. With the tragic events, residents have been asking questions, demanding answers from their government. OMG decided to take matters into our own hands and obtain answers from local officials using hidden cameras. Meet Alexander Boss, an official inside the office of Los Angeles Mayor, Karen Bass.
Alexander Boss specializes in international relations for Bass's office. He spoke about his role to one of our undercover journalists.
Speaker 0: I'm in the mayor's office of international. Okay. So we're, like, the social social welfare. So I'm not in, like, the homeless section, which I'm not interested. No.
So we deal with, like, all the consulates in the area. We deal with any foreign delegations that come into Los Angeles that wanna do, like, any sort of bilateral agreements or just kind of, like, make business easier between the residents here that are from there you know, or, actually, like, potential opportunities. Know? We meet with our deputy well, right now, we don't have one. But, usually, when we do have one, we meet with our once or twice a week, like, the whole team.
Then we have a round table, and we talk about what we're working on. And it's cool, and it's fun.
Speaker 1: Boss discloses into our hidden camera that mayor Karen Bass's office knew these wildfires would happen and admits there was nothing the mayor's office could do to stop the fires.
Speaker 2: They really had no idea this fire was, like, a possibility.
Speaker 0: Of course, they did. But the thing is there's nothing they can do. But around five mornings, like, it's been a big indication of fires. Yeah. So at first, they did.
Speaker 1: Currently, Alexander Boss from the Los Angeles mayor's office works with the victims of the LA wildfires. Boss goes on to blame the spreading of the fires on the residents for their, quote, homes being out of code. Bozz also saying, quote, nobody gave a fuck.
Speaker 2: How was that? Today with the fires and helping people?
Speaker 0: It was it was okay. It's just crazy, like, these because these people, like, they've literally, like, they've lost everything. Like, people are, like, literally breaking down into tears. It's all we're, like, just we're trying to sign them in, like, get them, like, the service that they need. Yeah.
Yeah. It's really bad.
Speaker 2: Victims from policies or everybody. I don't know. Policies, everybody. But
Speaker 0: the other thing too No. I see that. Like, with this fire, like, a lot of these a lot of the houses there, so, like, they were out of like, their yards were out
Speaker 5: of code. No.
Speaker 2: Out of what?
Speaker 0: Out of code. Like, nobody gave them I don't know. Like, this is, like, a long time, like, waiting to happen. It is it was just, like, a taking time bomb. But, like, the house is, they there's supposed to be, like, a certain amount of feet apart too.
Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's hard. Yeah. It
Speaker 0: just wasn't built the way it should have been.
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Speaker 3: So what was the initial response when that when this
Speaker 2: all happened? Like, like, what because the mayor wasn't in town. So
Speaker 0: here's the thing.
Speaker 2: There's just been so much conflict and it's amazing.
Speaker 5: Right. So here's the thing. So we're we're trying to
Speaker 0: first of all, she wasn't just out there, like, partying it up with Bad Bunny. You know what I mean? Like, so she was out there, like, doing work
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 4: And What does she do?
Speaker 0: So right now, Donna's trying to establish a cause for the Los Angeles. Yeah. One big plan of hers is to integrate, like, African countries to get funds for what's out there, and it's not like they're charity cases. Like, we're not doing using city funds to do this. And, also, like, this is, like, mutually beneficial.
So, like, it benefits both our economy and their Yeah. So that's what we're that's, like, a big, like, strategic goal of the office.
Speaker 2: Do you think, like, do you think that, like, prioritizing, like, minorities and stuff is priority of the mayor's office? Like
Speaker 0: I mean, in general, yes.
Speaker 1: The official inside the mayor's office said that president Trump's order to release water from the Central Valley in California was, quote, dumb and not real.
Speaker 0: Trump turned the water back on through the military, like I mean, that was on the news. But Yeah. So think that was funny. Didn't think it was funny. I thought it was dumb.
Speaker 2: It was dumb? Yeah. That he's giving us water?
Speaker 1: No. No.
Speaker 2: Do you think that's real?
Speaker 0: Yeah. It's not real. All I know is there's a lot of misinformation coming out from TikTok.
Speaker 1: Our team wanted to investigate further, we decided to look into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This led us to a guy named Angel Luna, a project matter for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Angel spoke to our undercover journalist about his role for that department.
Speaker 5: But normally, I I just I'm I'm a project manager for on the water side. So this it's funny enough that the same people that are my bosses are still the same people the people I work with are the same people that I'm working with in this emergency room. Yeah. There's like a bunch of legal holes, but I'm basically like running around just making sure that people got what they need. So I'm setting them like I see like four, five, five locations.
I'm setting up like more up like four more to distribute water.
Speaker 2: Distribute water?
Speaker 5: Drinking water. Yeah. Yeah. That's fine. It's gonna be all day.
Speaker 2: Do they do people
Speaker 9: work from home
Speaker 2: at the
Speaker 5: time or just Oh, no. Like a couple days out of the week. No. Actually, three days out of the week.
Speaker 1: Now the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power project manager admitted to us into our hidden cameras that the water reservoir that services Pacific Palisades was empty for nearly a year. Angel Luna also stated that the water wouldn't have made a big impact for the residents of Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: It's like everybody is just kind of like, what happened?
Speaker 5: So that reservoir, we're not as like, we took it out of service because there is a tear, like, on the floating covers, like, I don't know. It's, a billion dollars or so because of that floating cover to repair or something like that. But then we like, that the coverage rated for, twenty five years.
Speaker 6: How long is the reservoir empty?
Speaker 5: It's like a year. Also, even though like like let's say we had
Speaker 7: like a like a little bit of notice,
Speaker 5: you can't slam fill the reservoir. You can't just like, oh, we got a we got water.
Speaker 2: It's just I guess like people ask questions like, like could it happen different if there was water in the reservoir?
Speaker 5: I don't think it would have made that big of an impact because of the fact that you lost so many homes.
Speaker 2: Oh, is there not enough water? Like, what's the
Speaker 5: Oh, there's enough water.
Speaker 2: There is enough water? I
Speaker 5: have more than enough water.
Speaker 2: They they have been what? Repairs or
Speaker 5: Kind of. But because it's like it's continual thing but what? It's like the winds hit pretty hard this year. Yeah. We weren't expecting this.
Speaker 2: Obviously, you think it could have helped if there was water and fire hydrants. Hydrants.
Speaker 5: They were also breaking our equipment.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think everyone's just like, k. We need more water. We them.
Speaker 5: Yeah. But yeah. I mean,
Speaker 0: we live
Speaker 5: in a desert. It's it's all in the rain here.
Speaker 1: Our team spoke to two National Guard members who admitted governor Newsom did not fill the reservoirs and confirmed the hydrants were empty when the fires were raging.
Speaker 5: I saw that, the fire hydrants.
Speaker 10: There's no water coming
Speaker 0: out of
Speaker 5: it, bro. Why? Well, I mean, the governor decided not to do reservoir shit. They didn't have water in the hydrants. No.
They didn't. No. Why? We've been here since the tenth. It's been it's pretty bad.
It is bad. It it's the situation is is it's over.
Speaker 1: This was Angel Luna's first date with her undercover journalist, and oddly, he revealed he was ignoring his mandatory LADWP training for the water emergency command center. The training teaches him what to do in emergency situations. Luna goes on to say he did the training after the LA wildfires occurred, and he admitted that he doesn't do his job.
Speaker 5: So it's the water emergency command center, and it's like it's incident incident command system structure, which it's it's like it's something like there's something else ignoring like earlier this year. They're like, oh, here here's your training. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Thanks.
Speaker 9: Did you
Speaker 5: do it? No. No boss. Alright. Cool.
Speaker 8: Yeah. So you guys had a training?
Speaker 5: Yeah. So then I got a reminder even though like I'm a supervisor and told that like, alright. Like you gotta do this. So like I I gave it like the college trials like oh, this is super dry because a robot voice is reading this to me. So like yeah.
Like I tried doing it. Was like, I'm gonna just print it print it out. I'm gonna try doing the test at the end so I just do it. I was like, no, it didn't work. Right?
But then after getting thrown into it and seeing like what it is within real time, it's like, oh, now all this makes sense. So I went back and did all
Speaker 2: of them. Oh my god. Yeah. Were you guys required to do that type of stuff?
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Finally, we sent our team, our correspondents on the Ground Angeles to ask residents what they thought about the LA Officials.
Speaker 10: So we're here in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. And as you see, we're in front of the disaster that happened a couple weeks ago due to the fires that were raging here. We spoke to some of the residents from Los Angeles. Here's part of our conversation.
Speaker 11: I worked at a preschool in the Palisades, and I was actually there.
Speaker 10: What was a preschool?
Speaker 11: Pali Press. Yeah. And I was there the day that the fires happened, and so we had to evacuate all the children.
Speaker 10: What do you guys think of the mayor?
Speaker 11: I don't think her actions were what they could have been during the time of the fire.
Speaker 5: Mainly, I've seen a lot of different fires starting up from, like, different random people, like Arsonists? Yeah. I I do feel like Gavin Newsom was a big part of not being able to get it extinguished.
Speaker 12: We did a kick ass job.
Speaker 10: You like Karen Bass?
Speaker 12: Kick ass. Yes.
Speaker 10: Did. Why did she do a kick ass job?
Speaker 12: She's trying to get what she can and she's working with all the BS that the other people above are giving her crap for.
Speaker 10: There's only three houses on my street that survived and mine was one of them. Who would you blame? Probably the mayor because the reservoirs weren't filled out.
Speaker 13: We also got the chance to speak to Steve Slipsevik, the CEO and founder of Strategic Response Partners. SRP is a network of experienced disaster management professionals who serve property owners in nearly all aspects of disaster preparation, response, and recovery. SRP has been on the ground in LA helping local homeowners. Steve told us that firefighters were sent into the battle with no bullets.
Speaker 9: And those firefighters that do an excellent job, it's not their fault. They're ready to go. And when they show up at a battlefield with no bullets, responsibility goes right to the top. People say, well, even if we had a lot of trucks, we couldn't stop it. That's interesting.
We do private fire. Every structure that we stood up, we saved.
Speaker 13: We showed Steve the hidden camera footage from the LA mayor's official, and here's what he had to say.
Speaker 9: The mayor's put in a position to protect the residents, to provide opportunities, economic opportunities in those neighborhoods. Right? That's what the mayor's position is.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 9: So it's a failure on government, hands down. You expect that the resident who maybe moved in here from Germany or somewhere else knows what a red flag warning is? Because I don't care what you say at the end of the day, results don't lie. And based on results, no water in the reservoirs, no water at the hydrants. That's right.
Right? Apparatus, engines in the boneyard with no parts.
Speaker 10: We caught up with Alexander Bowes, international relations staffer from LA Mayor Karen Bass, and here's how it went. Alex? Hi. Hey. You work for mayor Karen Bass.
Is that correct? Oh. I'd like to talk to you about some of the comments you made. I don't. This is you on hidden camera right here.
You spoke about how the houses were out of code for the Pacific Palisades residence. Is that right? Is that you? Do you work for Karen Bass? I know you're not mute.
You talk to her all the time. This is you on on camera. Alex. Alright. I'm gonna call the police.
Call the police. I'm a journalist. It's the first amendment. We're asking questions about the comments you said on hidden camera. Bring them.
Speaker 0: If you could please, like
Speaker 10: Is this you with mayor Karen Bass? Why was she in Ghana when houses were being deleted by the fires? No comment. Do you have you met the mayor? No.
Yes. You did. Are you lying?
Speaker 0: I'm not lying. Okay. You know what? No comment.
Speaker 10: So why was she in Ghana? You said she was partying with Bad Bunny. Who was she partying with? Alex. Where are you going?
Alex, you said the president getting water for Los Angeles was dumb. Why is it dumb to give water to people? Those are your words. Sir, do you think it's dumb for people to have water? Where are you going?
Do you know where you parked? You said that the office knew that the fires were coming because of red flag indications. You said there was nothing that they could do. Do you think the mayor is responsible for the fires? Alex, what do you think the residents will think of your comments?
Sir, Alexander Boz, international relations mayor's office threatening to call the cops on a journalist for asking questions. Let's get a shot of him, please. So we're calling Angel Luna, a project manager from Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for his comments to an undercover journalist. You spoke to our undercover journalist just a few weeks ago about how the Santa Ynez water reservoir was not full. I'd like to get your comment on the record about that.
Speaker 14: You would actually have to, speak to our legal representation, but
Speaker 10: Well, you I have you on hidden camera speaking about how you're blaming the LA Firefighters for breaking the equipment, and that's why they don't have water in the fire hydrants. What's your comment?
Speaker 14: Once again, I would still need to run this through legal.
Speaker 10: And why didn't you do your emergency water command training when you spoke to our undercover journalists? Then you did it after the fire. Why did you do that?
Speaker 14: Once again, I would need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to hear from you. I'm talking to you.
Speaker 14: Well, once again, I will need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: What do you think the LA residents will see and think of when they see that you're saying that I didn't do my training, you're blaming the firefighters, there was no water in the fire hydrants. What's going on there, Angel?
Speaker 14: Once again, I'll still need to speak to my legal representation.
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to talk to I know. Let's talk let's have a conversation about this, Angel. I think it's pretty damning to say these things, and you don't have water in the reservoir. People's houses were burning down. Y'all didn't have water.
So what's going on, Angel?
Speaker 14: Once again, thanks for approaching me on this, but I will still need to speak to legal representation.
Speaker 10: And when can I hear back from you on that? You said you're gonna speak to them. When are you gonna come back to me on that?
Speaker 14: I will not be coming back to you. You could speak to legal patient. Thank you.
Speaker 10: Okay. Alright. Well, last question I have for you, and he hung up. Angel Luna, LADWP project manager.
Speaker 1: We'll be doing a lot of follow-up reporting on the fires in Los Angeles, on the statements made by these officials. If you're on the inside of any government agency in California or anywhere in Los Angeles, you know who to call. Our signal number is (914) 491-9395. Our email address tips@okeefmediagroup.com. Our reporters are standing by.
We are hot on the story here in California and elsewhere deep within the desert. Stay tuned next week for a follow-up. We'll get back to you. Be brave. And as always, our price is our life.
Stay tuned.
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I received recordings of LA Mayor Karen Bass related to our fire story, but sources are worried about retaliation. My Citizen Journalism Foundation promises to support anyone who shares evidence of waste, fraud, or abuse. We believe retaliation can amplify important stories.
@JamesOKeefeIII - James O'Keefe
NEW: Sources have provided us recordings of LA Mayor Karen Bass after our fire story below BUT: Sources are concerned with retaliation. PROMISE: My Citizen Journalism Foundation pledges to have the backs of anyone who comes forward with evidence of waste, fraud or abuse At CJF we LOVE retaliation because it brings awareness to the content, makes the story bigger and helps us help you!
@JamesOKeefeIII - James O'Keefe
LEAKED PHONE CALL: LA Mayor Karen Bass Preemptively Defended Ghana Trip Despite Local Catastrophe: "I'm Missing Two Workdays, That's It"; Dropped Cryptic Warning Days Before LA Fires "Read in between the lines... hold tight, you will understand soon." https://t.co/2vxF11xMFB
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Just so you know, I'm missing two work days for this trip. If President Biden extends an invitation, I'm taking it. This situation is very dangerous, and I would never do a publicity stunt. A press conference at this point would just be for show.
The neighbors and residents want to know that something is being done and that their concerns are recognized. However, I won't compromise anything just to make them happy. I want to ensure everyone's safety, so please hold tight. You'll understand soon.
When I can talk, I'll provide more details. You can reach out to me anytime.
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Speaker 0: And just in terms of my trip, just so you know, I'm missing two work days. That's it. And if president Biden extends me an invitation, I took it. And, hopefully, you can read in between the lines. But I would just appreciate just and it's hard for me to tell you this, but hold tight.
You will you will understand soon. That this situation is very dangerous, and I would never do I will take the criticism criticism before I do a publicity stunt. And, frankly, a press conference at this point in time would just be publicity.
Speaker 1: I think I don't But I think
Speaker 0: the the neighbors, the property owners Uh-huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the residents. I mean, 41,000 people live within a square mile here. Yep. Two families share a one bedroom apartment.
Speaker 0: But but they wanna hear that something is gonna be done.
Speaker 1: They wanna know it's recognized. But they wanna know it's recognized.
Speaker 0: Exactly. But if I have a choice between that and compromising something, I just have to go along with it. It's not my area of expertise. I wanna make sure that you are safe, and, hopefully, you can read in between the lines. But I would just appreciate just and it's hard for me to tell you this, but hold tight.
You will you will understand soon. Okay. Okay? Okay. And when I am able to talk, I will be happy to go into great detail.
Speaker 1: Okay. And you've got me on the street, and you're welcome to call me at any time. I'll call you right back.
Speaker 0: No problem. And just in terms of my trip, just so you know, I'm missing two work days. That's it. And if president Biden extends me an invitation, I took it.
@MidwesternDoc - A Midwestern Doctor
Do you think this leaked call proves Karen Bass had foreknowledge of the fires and didn't want to be there when they happened? If anyone has familiarity with California and Los Angeles politics, I would greatly appreciate your input.
@ProjectConstitu - Project Constitution
@bennyjohnson WAS I RIGHT OR WHAT? Predicted this 100% @JamesOKeefeIII just dropped a HIDDEN CAMERA BOMBSHELL: LA Mayor’s Office KNEW about the fires BEFORE they hit. https://t.co/drbiQ0chIj
reSee.it AI Summary
I believed the LA fires would prompt action in California, but I was mistaken. A significant portion of these fires is linked to the homeless population, while the state lacks sufficient firefighters and resources. Instead of addressing these urgent issues, Governor Newsom is focused on his podcast and political battles. Despite warnings about impending disasters, funding for fire prevention was cut in favor of other priorities. The narrative that nothing could have been done to prevent the fires is misleading; leadership failures have led to this crisis. It's time for change in California's leadership.
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
I thought the LA fires would wake California up. I was wrong. *Half* of LA fires are started by ~50k meth/fentanyl addicts/mentally ill homeless. LA has half the firefighters it needs. There's not enough hydrant water. And Gavin Newsom is focused like a laser on his podcast.
@GavinNewsom - Gavin Newsom
I'm launching a NEW PODCAST. We need to change the conversation. I'm talking directly with people I disagree with, people I look up to, and you -- the listeners. Egg prices? Tariffs? DOGE? We're tackling all your big questions. This is Gavin Newsom. Subscribe now ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-gavin-newsom/id1798358255
Video Transcript AI Summary
I'm launching a new podcast to change the conversation. It's going to be anything but your ordinary politician podcast. I will be speaking directly with people that I disagree with as well as people I look up to. More importantly, I'll be talking directly with you, the listener. Real conversations, no political mumbo jumbo.
We'll tackle topics like the rising cost of eggs, the real impact of tariffs, the power of executive orders, and the inside scoop on Doge. There's an onslaught of information, so let's go straight to the sources. In the first few weeks, we're sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and architects in the mega movement, like Gavin Newsom.
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Speaker 0: We need to change the conversation, and that's why I'm launching a new podcast. And this is gonna be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. I'm gonna be talking to people directly that I disagree with as well as people I look up to. But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly with you, the listener. Real conversations.
What's going on with the cost of eggs? What are the impacts, real impacts to you around tariffs? What power does an executive order really have? And what's really going on inside of Doge? Look.
There's an onslaught of information that we take in, so let's take it to the sources without the typical political mumbo jumbo. In the first few weeks, we're gonna be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and architects in the mega movement. This is Gavin Newsom.
This is Gavin Newsom
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@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Everyone talks about the coming disastrous fires and "Big One" earthquake, so you'd think Gavin Newsom would be taking urgent action. He's not. Instead, he's attacking Trump and demanding $40 billion to pay for the LA fires that his leadership failures created. https://t.co/nAUPn6MeDZ
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Fire fighters and many others warned Gavin and LA's mayor that catastrophic fires were coming. In response, they cut funding for fire prevention and fire fighters. Why? Because they were focused on promoting DEI, transgenderism, and climate apocalypse https://t.co/pJ3X3f68OQ
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Gavin and the media promote the Big Lie that nothing could have been done to prevent LA's fires. It's all outrageous nonsense. People were raising the alarm for years. Dems defunded firefighting and fire prevention. https://t.co/hNRn1AOqpb
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
Nothing could have been done to stop the catastrophic L.A. fires that killed 24, incinerated 12k homes, and cost $250B, say the media. Nonsense, says an LA firefighter. The failure by Newsom & Bass to mobilize firefighters before the fires began led to an avoidable catastrophe. https://t.co/bM7dgulyDn
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
People say, "California Democrats are incompetent." Well, duh. The question is why? The answer is they believe Indigenous genocide and slavery make America evil, and so they defund the things that protect civilization, like police and firefighting. https://t.co/E3dNBE4ONf
@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger
California is the richest state with the highest taxes and yet it cut funding for firefighting, which led directly to L.A.'s catastrophic fires. Why? Because Newsom & Bass diverted billions from preventing and fighting catastrophic fires to migrants, homeless, and climate. https://t.co/FVckx9qaDU
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
This is a never before seen video of the Pacific Palisades fire. It was given to Spencer Pratt by a resident today who forgot he had it and posted - Gavin Newsom let Los Angeles burn - Laundered fire victims aid money to his NGO - He’s working to steal their land. It’s insane https://t.co/HbQaNUbeDb
Video Transcript AI Summary
Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence. In restless dreams, I walked alone. Narrow streets of cobblestone
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Speaker 0: Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again because a vision softly creeping left its seeds while I was sleeping. And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence. In restless dreams, I walked alone. Narrow streets of cobblestone
@WallStreetApes - Wall Street Apes
SURFACED VIDEO found by Spencer Pratt shows firefighters during the Pacific Palisades fires actually saying “We’re out of water, no water at all” This directly contradicts Gavin Newsom claiming their was “Plenty of water, you bumbling idiots” Newsom should be held accountable https://t.co/xHXErVPhR5
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Speaker 0: You guys still having water problems? Yeah. Yeah. No water. No water problems. No water alone.
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Speaker 0: You guys still having water problems? Yeah. Yeah. No water. No water problems.
No water alone.