Backlash To LAFD Chief Being Fired (02/24)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (02/24) - More on the backlash of Mayor Karen Bass firing former LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley. An employee of Mayor Karen Bass was caught on a hidden camera saying Bass knew about the weather and fire warnings. Matt Pakuco comes on the show to talk about the toxic debris removal from burn areas and how residents are upset about where the toxic debris is being moved to. An LADWP employee admitted that the Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty for a year.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI a m 640 you're listening to the john cobel podcast on the iHeart radio app welcome to the show we are on |
| 0:08.0 | every day from one until four and then after four o'clock john cobelts show on demand on the iHeart app |
| 0:14.3 | see if you miss the show you demand that the show be presented again and that's what what happens. And you can listen to the podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | It's the same as the radio show. And you will not miss a thing. There is a lot of controversy |
| 0:28.8 | swirling around Karen Bass after last week's insane statement by her on Fox 11 with Alex |
| 0:40.8 | Michelson that she wasn't aware of the fires or the fire weather that was going to hit Los Angeles. |
| 0:50.3 | Just a quick timeline again. |
| 0:51.9 | The first fire warnings from the National Weather Service went out on January 2nd. |
| 0:58.0 | She leaves for Africa on January 4th. |
| 1:02.7 | The warnings intensify as the days we're on. |
| 1:06.3 | And she even sends out or someone sends out on her Twitter, reiterating the fire warning, posting the fire warning. |
| 1:18.1 | And she was not in contact, apparently, with the fire chief, Kristen Crowley, the day of the fire or the night before the fire, before it happened, |
| 1:30.3 | so that they could come up with a plan to send in extra firefighters and engines into the high-risk |
| 1:38.2 | areas in the foothills on both sides of the Santa Monica Mountains. |
| 1:42.2 | There's no evidence that she took any action at all |
| 1:45.2 | until the fire broke out and then started getting on the phone. But there was no prevention |
| 1:51.5 | meetings. There was no, hey, what are we going to do if this happens kind of meetings, which you |
| 1:55.0 | would expect? Now, so she goes on Alex Michelson and says she wasn't, frankly, like she's being true. |
| 2:04.3 | I love when people go frankly. |
| 2:06.2 | Frankly means I'm being truthful here. |
| 2:08.0 | And I assume that means you're not always being truthful, right? |
| 2:10.3 | So you're highlighting this moment that I'm telling you the truth. |
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