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.
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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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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“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.
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