The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (06/27) - Metro Wants Their Own Police Dept
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
UFLAC President Freddy Escobar comes on the show to talk about the 11 firefighters that were injured in an explosion at a homeless encampment near the Sepulveda Basin. More on the homeless problem. Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about Metro's board meeting today where they discussed having their own police department. Apparently people are going to therapy for PTSD from the Northridge Earthquake.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI AM 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome. Boy, we've got a packed show today full of fascinating things. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, tonight on KFI, you're going to hear a simulcast of the CNN presidential debate. |
| 0:19.7 | Trump and Biden starts at six, six to seven 30, and we're going to |
| 0:25.0 | run the radio version of the debate during that time. After 730, I'm going to be on Fox 11. |
| 0:34.2 | Alex Michelson is, I guess, going to have some kind of post game show about it, and I'll be part of that. |
| 0:40.0 | Until then, we're going to go through all the crazy stuff that's happening in Southern California. |
| 0:49.0 | You may have heard that there was a fire on Monday afternoon, a homeless encampment in this |
| 0:58.0 | pulverde basin, which is a big park area, Burbank Boulevard, Woodley Avenue. |
| 1:03.9 | And the firefighters ran over to the encampment. |
| 1:08.5 | It was a breastfire and something blew up. |
| 1:12.8 | Eleven firefighters were hurt. |
| 1:14.8 | One really badly. |
| 1:17.2 | His ear was nearly severed and they were able to reattach it at Northridge Hospital. |
| 1:25.2 | But 10 other firefighters suffer from headaches, reamed to the air, ears, |
| 1:31.4 | shrapnel wounds. Most were evaluated at the hospital and released. But again, there was one |
| 1:37.3 | firefighter severely injured. They have now determined that the explosion was caused by a propane |
| 1:43.1 | tank. At first, they thought there was, it was some kind of, I don't know, the bomb squad came. |
| 1:50.4 | They thought it was some kind of munitions that were exploding. |
| 1:54.6 | We're going to talk now with Freddie Escobar. |
| 2:01.3 | He is the president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles and a local 112. |
| 2:07.2 | And he has been very outspoken about the dangers that firefighters are facing from these homeless |
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