Faulty Warning System (01/22)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (01/22) - Alex Stone comes on the show to talk about Eaton Fire victims saying they didn't receive emergency evacuation alerts and also has the latest on the Hughes Fire burning near Castaic Lake. More on the faulty warning system. More on the Hughes Fire burning near Castaic Lake.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:06.1 | We're on every day from 1 until 4 after 4 o'clock. It's John Cobalt's show on demand. |
| 0:11.3 | On demand on the IHeart app. Listen to what you missed. |
| 0:14.6 | Moist line for Friday is 877 Moist 86. 877 Moist 86. |
| 0:18.8 | You use the talkback feature on the IHout radio app if you want to rail away about all the city and county incompetence when it comes to the fire response. |
| 0:30.0 | And today we've got another huge fire, the huge fire in the Castaic area, which if you don't know is part of L.A. County. |
| 0:38.3 | And we're going to be delving into LA County's evacuation warning failures in just a moment with Alex Stone. But this fire |
| 0:44.2 | is burning over 5,000 acres. And this thing exploded 5,000 acres in less than two hours. So I imagine |
| 0:51.5 | it could be a lot more than 5,000 right now. They're attacking it quite a bit from the air. |
| 0:58.2 | The two county super scoopers are being used. Not so much on the ground because the terrain is very |
| 1:03.6 | difficult to deal with. There are a lot of homes in jeopardy. In fact, they show video now on Fox 11 where there's a lot of people running, |
| 1:15.6 | it looks like they're in, it might be a school building. I know, people are evacuating. |
| 1:20.7 | Well, schools have been evacuated. That's mistake. High school. Yeah. They're showing the crowds of |
| 1:24.6 | kids and administrators and teachers all crowded on the stairs and in the courtyards and running down the street. |
| 1:31.5 | Because depending which way you point the camera, the sky is orange and yellow and brown and black from the fire and the smoke. |
| 1:41.2 | KTLA is reporting 19,000 people have been evacuated so far. |
| 1:45.0 | 19,000 in Castaic. And they, I mean, that's most of the population. I'm just looking |
| 1:54.3 | on Wikipedia. They have a 2010 census number of 19,000. So nearly the whole town has run out. |
| 2:04.2 | We will, Deborah's on the case there. |
| 2:06.1 | Michael Monks in the KFI Newsroom is on the case. |
| 2:08.6 | Alex Stone is with us from ABC News to talk about this really shocking and disgusting story. |
| 2:16.0 | L.A. County sent out evacuation warnings up to eight to nine hours late to Western Altadena |
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