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Strap yourself in. We're on every day from one until four after four o'clock. John

Cobalt show on Demand on the IHeart app. We have obviously a lot to do. Los Angeles Times has another story about the lack of fire response in the palisades

before the fire took off.

Yesterday, we brought you the writings of Michael Schellenberger.

In fact, we had Michael on the air in the 2 o'clock hour,

and it's still worth listening to that on the podcast from yesterday. Michael had talked to a 40-year

veteran of an L.A. He's an L.A. County firefighter had to remain anonymous. So don't know exactly which agency

he worked for, but he said clearly a lot could have been done to position fire engines and

fire personnel in the palisades and other threatened areas. And he went into great detail.

And here, second day in a row, a similar story from the Los Angeles Times.

They have three writers.

I'll read you the first paragraph.

As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds,

top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment, a thousand available firefighters,

and about 40 water-carrying engines in advance of the fire that destroyed much of the Pacific palisades.

I think we have to remember as you hear all the excuses and the lies coming from various officials.

And that's all they are.

They're excuses and lies, they're covering up their

ass. They don't want to be publicly vilified. They don't want to be forced out of their jobs.

They don't want to end up in a criminal indictment. See, understand what's going on here. They're not

telling the truth. And they may never tell the truth themselves.

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