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The John Kobylt Show

Freddie Escobar & Nick Shirley (05/01)

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Freddie Escobar
Homeless Fires
Nick Shirley

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.8

KFI AM-640.

0:06.6

You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the I-Heart Radio app.

0:10.3

We're going to get right into this one because this is just outrageous.

0:16.3

The city is uninhabital.

0:18.4

The city of Los Angeles is dangerous. I've never seen a city

0:25.3

out of this situation. There were almost 17,000 fires last year in the city of L.A.

0:33.7

And according to the L.A. Fire Department started by homeless people, 17,000, 46 every day.

0:42.9

46 every day, almost two an hour somewhere in the city.

0:48.5

Compared to 2020, it's more than doubled.

0:52.4

There are about 7,000 in 2020, now 17,000.

0:57.0

Every year it goes up.

0:59.7

And there's one fire station in South L.A.

1:02.5

Responded to 78 fires, all due to one encampment

1:06.8

underneath the Harvard Freeway on King Boulevard.

1:11.6

And nobody, Karen Bass doesn't do anything about it.

1:16.9

78 fires from one encampment, and she does nothing.

1:23.0

Let's get Freddie Escobar with the Los Angeles Fire Department Union.

1:29.3

Welcome, Freddie.

1:31.3

How are you?

1:32.3

Hey, John.

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