LAFD Needs More Funding | Street Light Tax Hike Proposal (04/20)

The John Kobylt Show

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4.3 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (04/20) - Freddie Escobar comes on the show to talk about the new LA City budget not having anything for more fire department resources in it. Homeless fires are on the rise in LA. Susan Shelley comes on the show to talk about a new street light tax hike proposal. Gov. Newsom's wife's cousin is donating to Gov. Newsom's opponents.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.0	KFI AM-640.
0:06.5	You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Heart Radio app.
0:10.7	It's the John Cobalt show, and we're on every day from three to six.
0:14.2	And after six, John Cobalt show On Demand on the I-Heart app, and you listen to what you missed.
0:18.8	We're going to get right into this one because this is just outrageous.
0:24.8	The city is uninhabital.
0:26.9	The city of Los Angeles is dangerous.
0:31.7	I've never seen a city allow this situation.
0:35.7	There were almost 17,000 fires last year in the city of L.A.
0:42.2	And according to the L.A. Fire Department started by homeless people.
0:46.3	17,000.
0:48.3	46 every day.
0:51.5	46 every day.
0:53.1	Almost two an hour somewhere in the city. Compared to 2020,
0:58.9	it's more than doubled. There are about 7,000 in 2020, now 17,000. Every year it goes up. And
1:08.6	there's one fire station in South L.A LA responded to 78 fires, all due to one
1:14.7	encampment underneath the Harvard Freeway on King Boulevard. And nobody, Karen Bass,
1:23.4	doesn't do anything about it. 78 fires from one encampment, and she does nothing.
1:31.6	Well, let's get Freddie Escobar with the Los Angeles Fire Department Union.
1:38.5	Welcome, Freddie. How are you?
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