Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray WBZ Constance Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's the end of the week and the story
Speaker 2: of the week we haven't yet talked about. Therefore, let's
Speaker 2: talk about Los Angeles at this point. I remember when
Speaker 2: this story broke on Tuesday and someone from San Diego
Speaker 2: sent me a text, a friend of mine in San
Speaker 2: Diego that Los Angeles was on fire and prayed for
Speaker 2: people in Los Angeles. And I didn't know what she
Speaker 2: had meant. And beginning on Tuesday, you realized there's a
Speaker 2: big fire. Well it was big fires. The devastation in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles justice unimaginable, unimaginable. You look at some of
Speaker 2: those communities where people had multi million dollar homes, they
Speaker 2: were close to or in sight of the Pacific Ocean,
Speaker 2: and the fires that swept through were just devastating. Now,
Speaker 2: there's a whole lot of reasons here. First and foremost,
Speaker 2: I guess is that there's been very little rain in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I think I read somewhere that since last
Speaker 2: May an inch or so of rain. If that that's
Speaker 2: problem number one. Problem Number two is they do not
Speaker 2: tend to clear a lot of brush in parts of
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I don't think they've had the money to
Speaker 2: do it, as a matter of fact, But that gives
Speaker 2: you a real bed of dry fire, leaves, foliage, et cetera,
Speaker 2: scrub needles, all of that, and then you have these
Speaker 2: Santa Anna winds that are unimaginable. We have a hurricane
Speaker 2: here and the winds are eighty miles an hour, and
Speaker 2: they peak at eighty miles an hour, and then that
Speaker 2: four or five hours later, the meteorologist will tell us
Speaker 2: what the winds are dying down. They're only down to fifty,
Speaker 2: and then they're down to thirty and the hurricane has passed.
Speaker 2: But with a hurricane comes by definition of sheets of rain.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know that we've ever had a
Speaker 2: dry hurricane here in the Northeast, but in effact, they
Speaker 2: had a dry hurricane in California. Now there have been addition,
Speaker 2: there have been several arson arrests. This has not gotten
Speaker 2: much play on the Network news, but but if you
Speaker 2: go to google any of this man detained near the
Speaker 2: Kenneth fire not accused of arson. He apparently had been stopped.
Speaker 2: But there is there have been other arrests. California State
Speaker 2: Park peace officers arrest arsen suspect near Leo Carrillo State Park.
Speaker 2: That was nine hours ago. Well, a woman arrested. Arson
Speaker 2: arrest surge in California over the last decade, California California
Speaker 2: Fire reports. That's a TV report from twenty two hours ago.
Speaker 2: Last night, creedmore Man arrested for arson in Atlantic Beach
Speaker 2: bar charged with multiples. That's that's not a Pacific Coast story.
Speaker 2: I apologize that this story yesterday neighbors make dramatic arrest.
Speaker 2: So there's another one. Alleged arsonists arrested in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: and Medadly amid deadly fires. So there have been some
Speaker 2: arrest I don't know where that's going to go, but
Speaker 2: let's see what happens. If God forbid there were people
Speaker 2: who started a fire out there and ended up with
Speaker 2: the devastation that we have. I don't know how long
Speaker 2: a criminal sentence we could give them. Now, before we
Speaker 2: get to to our conversation and call as you're welcome
Speaker 2: to join the conversation. We have a couple of sound
Speaker 2: bites I'd like to play. I think they're important. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: actually I got three or four sound bites. One is
Speaker 2: a mom in Los Angeles confronting the Governor Gavin Newsom
Speaker 2: as he is out surveying fire damage.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And this is an interesting confrontation. I've watched it. This
Speaker 2: woman is pleading with Newsom to do something, and Newsom
Speaker 2: just wants to get away from her. Cut number seven, ORB.
Speaker 2: I have to get self service. Let's get it.
Speaker 1: I want to be here when you call the president.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I'm doing that right now. And it's
Speaker 2: to immediately get rembursement as individual assistance and to help
Speaker 2: John brown devastating program. I'm so sorry, especially for your daughter.
Speaker 2: I have four kids, one.
Speaker 4: Who went to school there.
Speaker 1: They lost their homes.
Speaker 5: They lost homes because they were living in one and
Speaker 5: building another.
Speaker 6: People, Kevin, please tell me, tell me what are you
Speaker 6: going to do with the president.
Speaker 7: Right now we're getting we're getting the resources to help rebuild.
Speaker 8: Is there no water in the hydrants?
Speaker 9: Governor?
Speaker 2: It's all literally?
Speaker 6: Is it going to be different next time?
Speaker 2: It has to be what are you going to do
Speaker 2: to fill the hydrants?
Speaker 8: I would fill him up personally.
Speaker 3: You know that I.
Speaker 9: Would fill up the hydrants myself.
Speaker 5: But would you do that?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do whatever I can not. I see the
Speaker 2: Do you.
Speaker 4: Know there's water dripping over there, Governor there's water coming
Speaker 4: out there?
Speaker 2: You can use it. Yeah, woman, Obviously it was just
Speaker 2: beyond frustrated. Uh, in these communities, there's some celebrities who
Speaker 2: have lost everything. Actor Mel Gibson was on Joe Rogan.
Speaker 2: This is what he had to say, cut number eight. Rob.
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you how you're doing.
Speaker 6: I'm doing good.
Speaker 10: You know, it's just a thing, but you know it is.
Speaker 7: Obviously it's kind of devastating.
Speaker 1: It's emotional.
Speaker 7: You know, you live there for a long time and
Speaker 7: you had.
Speaker 10: All your stuff.
Speaker 3: Do you remember George Carlin talking.
Speaker 2: About your stuff.
Speaker 6: I had my stuff.
Speaker 7: There, and it's all like I've been relieved from the
Speaker 7: burden of my stuff because it's all in cinders.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Where were you, Mel when the fire broke out?
Speaker 6: Gosh, I was in Austin.
Speaker 7: I was doing the Rogan podcast, you know, and I wasn't.
Speaker 7: I was kind of ill at ease while we were
Speaker 7: talking because I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so
Speaker 7: I thought, I wonder if my place is still there.
Speaker 7: But when I got home, sure enough, it wasn't there.
Speaker 7: I went home and I said to myself. Well, at
Speaker 7: least I haven't got any of those pesky plumbing problems anymore.
Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Fire Chief talked about some knucklehead flying
Speaker 2: a drone that was hit by a Super Scooper which
Speaker 2: was trying to fight the wildfires. Flying a drone in
Speaker 2: the fire traffic is illegal. This is the LA Fire
Speaker 2: Chief cut thirty six.
Speaker 4: Rob yesterday at the Palisades Fire. Unknown exactly what time
Speaker 4: this small drone hit the wing of our COL four
Speaker 4: fifteen Super Scooper aircraft that we currently have on contract
Speaker 4: from the Province of Quebec. The pilots were unaware that
Speaker 4: they hit the drone. It wasn't until they landed at
Speaker 4: Vanney's Airport that the maintenance staff noticed that there was
Speaker 4: a fist sized hole in the leading edge of the
Speaker 4: wing onboard of the landing light. That Super Scooper will
Speaker 4: be prioritized for repair twenty four to seven. It should
Speaker 4: be flying Monday. We only have two of them. Everyone
Speaker 4: should know, all of your viewers, flying a drone in
Speaker 4: the fire traffic area is not only dangerous, but it's illegal.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope they prosecute the guy and it turns out,
Speaker 2: and it turns out that Los Angeles voters had just
Speaker 2: elected a new prosecutor. This is the last sound bite
Speaker 2: I'm going to play. Then I'm going to go to
Speaker 2: phone calls after the quick break. But if you might remember,
Speaker 2: there used to be a prosecutor in Los Angeles name
Speaker 2: was George. I called them George Gasbag gascon. He was
Speaker 2: turned out of office because he was a prosecutor didn't
Speaker 2: want to prosecute. Well, the new prosecutor is a guy
Speaker 2: named Nathan Haukman. I guess his sister's house was destroyed
Speaker 2: and he has a warning to the looters and scammers.
Speaker 2: And this guy sounds like my sort of prosecutor. Cut
Speaker 2: thirty seven or up.
Speaker 5: So I'm here in Pacific Palisades at the site of
Speaker 5: what used to be my sister's home. She's lived here
Speaker 5: for a while, a long time with her family, and
Speaker 5: now this, this home, along with the homes in the
Speaker 5: street in this neighborhood, are just gone. I've been here
Speaker 5: for over sixty years. I've not seen devastation like this
Speaker 5: in my lifetime. I mean, you have to harken back
Speaker 5: to the nineteen nineties when we're hit with the floods
Speaker 5: and the fires, and the earthquakes and the riots do
Speaker 5: even get.
Speaker 8: Close to this.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm absolutely convinced that LA is incredibly resilient and
Speaker 5: like it's done many many times before, Angelino's will come
Speaker 5: back and build this back better than ever. But for
Speaker 5: the people who are thinking, the criminals who are out
Speaker 5: there thinking about taking advantage of this situation through looting,
Speaker 5: or through scams or over the internet and praying on
Speaker 5: vulnerable victims, let me make it quite clear what's going
Speaker 5: to happen. The DA's office, working with law enforcement, is
Speaker 5: going to arrest you. They're going to prosecute you, and
Speaker 5: you will be punished to the full extent of the law.
Speaker 2: That's a promise. That's a new sheriff in town, and
Speaker 2: it's very helpful. I'm very hopeful I should say that
Speaker 2: that looters and scammers will be discouraged. My question, we're
Speaker 2: going to go to break real quickly and come right
Speaker 2: back with phone calls six one, seven, five, four ten
Speaker 2: thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. What
Speaker 2: should be done with looters and scammers? I say, well,
Speaker 2: absolutely thrill the book at it, and I think a
Speaker 2: minimum a minimum of twenty five years, a minimum of
Speaker 2: twenty five years for looters and scammers. I have no
Speaker 2: idea what the statutes are in California, but I hope
Speaker 2: they go after them in every way possible. And if
Speaker 2: they ever find anybody actually started these fires, a human
Speaker 2: being started this fire, that person should spend the rest
Speaker 2: of his life in prison. That's my thoughts. I want
Speaker 2: to hear from you, if you know anyone who's been
Speaker 2: out there, if you have relatives or friends out there,
Speaker 2: we'd love to hear what you've If you've been out there,
Speaker 2: if you've seen it. If you're listening tonight in California,
Speaker 2: a first caller is coming up right after the break
Speaker 2: is from California. One of our regular listeners six one seven,
Speaker 2: two five four ten thirty or six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. Let's talk because this is I've
Speaker 2: never I never have imagined been around a long time,
Speaker 2: been around a long time, never saw anything like this.
Speaker 2: This actually makes Hawaii from me a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: to look relatively insignificant. I hate to put it like
Speaker 2: that way, but there's never been a fire of this
Speaker 2: magnitude in my lifetime at an American city. Los Angeles
Speaker 2: is burning back on night Side.
Speaker 1: After this, now back to Dan ray Line from the
Speaker 1: Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ the news radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go directly to California. Bob is a regular caller
Speaker 2: and a listener, and I know he's going to give
Speaker 2: us some information probably we haven't heard before. Bob. Welcome,
Speaker 2: appreciate your patients.
Speaker 11: Go right ahead, Thank you, Dan, Good evening. First of all,
Speaker 11: just the depth and scope of what's going on out
Speaker 11: here cannot be comprehended just by television video. A few
Speaker 11: quick facts. There are close to two hundred thousand people
Speaker 11: now displaced, two hundred thousand. There is now a curfew
Speaker 11: in place in the fire zone six pm to six am.
Speaker 11: There's a curfew which will help, you know, mitigate the looters.
Speaker 11: And there have been I've read north of ten thousand
Speaker 11: structures completely destroyed. They don't really know the number yet
Speaker 11: it continues to grow. It's not one fire, it's like
Speaker 11: four or five fires simultaneously. And the concern the winds
Speaker 11: return next Monday night. Tuesday, by no means the way
Speaker 11: out of the woods. These major fires are not even
Speaker 11: containing yet.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 11: I think one of the was eight percent contained, one
Speaker 11: of is three percent containing they're burning out of control
Speaker 11: as we speak. The point I wanted to make that
Speaker 11: I heard a couple of days ago there are hundreds
Speaker 11: of metric tons of dead vegetation in these hill sites,
Speaker 11: hundreds and hundreds of metric tons to breed that has
Speaker 11: been there for years and years. In the past, the
Speaker 11: state of California would clear out a lot of that debris.
Speaker 11: They have not done it. Okay, they have failed to
Speaker 11: do that over the last ten years. I heard a
Speaker 11: fire spokesman two days ago say that this is rocket
Speaker 11: fuel which is igniting these fires, all this dead vegetation.
Speaker 11: The state's entwer is we have no money. We have
Speaker 11: no money to do that. Okay, Well, Governor NUSA, and
Speaker 11: I'm going to read you one other factor. I googled it.
Speaker 11: Right in twenty twenty two, which is the last year
Speaker 11: if you google, twenty baillion dollars was given to illegals
Speaker 11: for services for illegals in the state of California. Twenty
Speaker 11: three billion. Okay, they paid eight point eight point five
Speaker 11: billion in taxes is what illegals supposedly paid. So that's
Speaker 11: a surplus. So that's the difference of fourteen billion dollars
Speaker 11: paid out. Can you imagine if we had just taken
Speaker 11: a couple of billion dollars, just two billion of the
Speaker 11: fourteen and cleaned out how much vegetation could have been
Speaker 11: cleaned out. Okay, I will just say, and then I'll
Speaker 11: let you ask any questions. This is a broken metropolis.
Speaker 11: It is broken. The reporters, the anchor people of the
Speaker 11: TV stations, they can barely not show their emotions. Okay,
Speaker 11: we are broken, We are crippled.
Speaker 2: Spirit.
Speaker 8: How long?
Speaker 2: How long do you think it's going to take Los
Speaker 2: Angeles to recover?
Speaker 11: They had a reporter last night in which I go
Speaker 11: through six times a year. It's not just rich people.
Speaker 11: People listening have to understand again, it's over turn of
Speaker 11: thousand people displaced. Many of them are just common folks
Speaker 11: like you and me. The reporter last night stood on
Speaker 11: PHM Malibu. I saw it, and he said, Malibu is gone.
Speaker 11: He goes, for those of you that have enjoyed Malibu,
Speaker 11: which is me and millions of people out here, he goes,
Speaker 11: it's gone. As you remember Malibu, it no longer exists.
Speaker 11: He goes, it is not here anymore, and he goes
Speaker 11: it will take years and years and years. The general
Speaker 11: thinking is five to ten years is what it will take.
Speaker 2: I remember visiting a friend of mine in who had
Speaker 2: a house on the water in Malibu. He was a writer,
Speaker 2: a movie writer, and he actually wrote music as well
Speaker 2: from Otown and there's a beautiful home and there were
Speaker 2: actually the part of it was on stilts. It was
Speaker 2: over the world water. It was actually part of the
Speaker 2: home was in the water. So it was on the
Speaker 2: water side of that highway in Malibu. And I guess
Speaker 2: all of those homes on.
Speaker 11: The water are gone, gone, gone. Yes, the fires jumped
Speaker 11: p Pacific Coast Highway. The fires are jumping the freeways.
Speaker 2: That home that that I visited him, I remember it. It
Speaker 2: was like yesterday being there and it's no longer there.
Speaker 2: And I looked at the I looked at the pictures
Speaker 2: from the air. It looked as if Pacific Palisades was
Speaker 2: hit with an atomic bomb.
Speaker 11: That's correct, they that's correct, and it's not just Pacific
Speaker 11: Palisades again. The FOI fied major fires. Yeah, they were
Speaker 11: talking to reported last night Alta Dina, right. He said,
Speaker 11: it looks like a nuclear bomb. He said, it is.
Speaker 11: I'm trying to process it, you know, I'm originally from Boston.
Speaker 11: I'd love Boston, but I've been out here since nineteen
Speaker 11: eighty seven. I'd love sell in California. I'm a native,
Speaker 11: considered a native. Now we're done, we're trying to process that.
Speaker 11: We're in a status shock. The misallocation of resources is criminal.
Speaker 11: What the politicians have done there, absolutely criminal. Their bass
Speaker 11: kept the fire budget by twenty three million dollars going
Speaker 11: into this year.
Speaker 7: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 11: Okay, last celebrities you mentioned that was the last last month.
Speaker 11: The celebrities, by the way, are turning against Newsome. Typically
Speaker 11: they've been Democrat and liberals. They're turning against them. You've
Speaker 11: got these I got to contain myself. He You've got
Speaker 11: these liberals to try to say, oh, well it's global warming. Well, yes,
Speaker 11: global global warming is certainly probably a factor. Okay, but
Speaker 11: had all that vegetation been cleaned out, the fires would
Speaker 11: have been mitigated. They would not rocket few. Let's keep
Speaker 11: using that word.
Speaker 2: So I heard I heard the guy use rocket the
Speaker 2: phrase rocket fuel.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I promise you, this is the next selection here.
Speaker 11: It's gonna be interrupting. Look out. People are fed up.
Speaker 11: I think they're gonna clean out nuisance turned out anyway.
Speaker 11: But anyway, sorry, any more questions down.
Speaker 2: No, it's just where are all these people gonna go about?
Speaker 2: That's the question. I mean they have nobody knows.
Speaker 11: Nobody knows. Okay, It's like I said, we're crippled. I
Speaker 11: intend long term to do what I can to help
Speaker 11: out some things you and I've talked about. I think
Speaker 11: downline will help because it will take years. In years again,
Speaker 11: the thinking is five to ten years. Okay. Now consider
Speaker 11: this too. If there was a major earthquake right now,
Speaker 11: God forbid, if there was, all of our resources go
Speaker 11: down and these fires would completely There's no question, a
Speaker 11: major part of the sun of California would just burn
Speaker 11: out if we didn't have these firefighting efforts going on,
Speaker 11: which anyway.
Speaker 2: It will have to be years, if not decades before
Speaker 2: those areas, those beautiful parts you know, west of downtown
Speaker 2: Los Angeles toward the water ever come back, if ever. Yep, ye, Bob,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for having me for the unseen reporting.
Speaker 2: I really do appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Count your blessings, everybody listening, Count your blessings. When you
Speaker 11: have your home, you know, it's a lot more than
Speaker 11: a lot of people have right now.
Speaker 2: They have nothing. They had the clothes in their back.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the things I would ask people
Speaker 2: here in New England if your house ever was on fire,
Speaker 2: you have maybe a minute or two if that, to
Speaker 2: gather whatever possessions you What do you do? You don't
Speaker 2: know what to do. Yeah, And I'm hearing today that
Speaker 2: insurance companies are actually already turning down claims.
Speaker 11: Of oh yes, yeah, I think you'll have at least
Speaker 11: one insurance company who's my opinion, go bankrupt. There are
Speaker 11: people that apply today. It is on news radio two
Speaker 11: hours ago. Okay, people people who have been applying to
Speaker 11: FEMA and they're getting automatically denied by FEMA is denying them,
Speaker 11: probably because you know the US citizens Okay, they're you
Speaker 11: and me. But you know that doesn't count. You have
Speaker 11: to be illegal, okay to get benefits full of your.
Speaker 2: Hopefully not hope, hopefully not. Bob. Thank you, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your for your for your information. It
Speaker 2: does give us a sense of how desperate it is
Speaker 2: for people out there. Thank you, my friend, Thank you.
Speaker 11: Much, Thank thank you. Dan good night.
Speaker 2: Six seven two four ten thirty, six seven, nine thirty
Speaker 2: Get a news break at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: We will talk about this, I hope until ten OClO.
Speaker 2: At ten o'clock, I want to talk about the sentencing
Speaker 2: today for the president elect. We will continue though, until
Speaker 2: ten o'clock. I just would what do you think when
Speaker 2: you see those pictures? It is it's beyond imaginable. It's
Speaker 2: beyond imaginable that in a city like Los Angeles this
Speaker 2: could have happened. There are many factors, manufacturers. Back on
Speaker 2: Nightside after.
Speaker 1: This, you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the phones we go. Let me go to
Speaker 2: Ray and Lowell. Ray, you are next on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 8: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you we're all doing better than people
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles. We got to keep them in our
Speaker 2: prayers tonight. Ray.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just I like to listen to your show
Speaker 8: a lot whenever I can, And I guess wanted a
Speaker 8: time in a couple by ideas here and just see
Speaker 8: what you think about it, what your audience thinks about it.
Speaker 8: You know, I mean, nobody wants to kick anybody when
Speaker 8: they're down, unless you're sick of yourself, you know. But
Speaker 8: I mean, but this, this is absolutely the California thing.
Speaker 8: The way California is run, in my opinion, is just
Speaker 8: like absolutely completely unaccountable for anything out there. They're just
Speaker 8: case in point. Gavin Newsom has been there. I think
Speaker 8: I could be wrong, but I think he's been governor
Speaker 8: for like seven or eight years or something like that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, he's been governor for a while.
Speaker 8: You're absolutely right, yeah, And you know with all this stuff,
Speaker 8: like like somebody was saying your earlier call the person
Speaker 8: you haad call in yourself. You know, I'm using the
Speaker 8: same term he did and you did. It's not rocket
Speaker 8: science that you know, you've got to clear out these
Speaker 8: bush things and stuff like that. And if that hasn't
Speaker 8: been done for years, I mean years and years in
Speaker 8: an area that's susceptible to you know, all kinds of
Speaker 8: stuff out the weatherwise. For Joe Biden to come out
Speaker 8: now on his last days, as he's leaving the Oval Office,
Speaker 8: thank god, but as he's leaving the Oval Office, for
Speaker 8: him to come out and say to Gavin Newsom, the
Speaker 8: post the boy, Gavin Newsom, the post a boy of
Speaker 8: unaccountability and the post a boy of just mal seasons
Speaker 8: for Joe Biden to say to him spare no expense.
Speaker 8: He doesn't. My words, not his. The US taxpayer, US
Speaker 8: taxpayer nation from Cedar Shining Sea will bail you out
Speaker 8: because you did everything possible to make this happen by
Speaker 8: default by not doing anything, and for the for the
Speaker 8: American taxpayers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Georgia to come
Speaker 8: out and pay for all us and he said this,
Speaker 8: He said this. Biden said this. He said, you know,
Speaker 8: we'll pay the salaries of the firefighters, will pay everything.
Speaker 8: And he said twice they are no expense. That is
Speaker 8: absolutely a phenomenal amount of money. Because he's going to
Speaker 8: step in, I'm sure and whatever insurance companies are turning
Speaker 8: down claims as they should after what has happened. I mean,
Speaker 8: he's going to probably bail them out insurance wise. The
Speaker 8: American taxpayer just gets host time and time again, in
Speaker 8: my opinion, by the Democrats. Because now, I will say this,
Speaker 8: in the interest of beings said, if this happened in
Speaker 8: a Republican runs state, let's say just pick one like
Speaker 8: with Christy Normans or something like that, I would be
Speaker 8: equally as had on the Republican if they heco they
Speaker 8: were absolutely as malfeasoned as this person here, But I
Speaker 8: just I'm sick and tired of the taxpayers coming in
Speaker 8: and rescuing people after they spend all of our money
Speaker 8: and you know, and then billions and billions to Ukraine
Speaker 8: and stuff, and the people in what was it in
Speaker 8: Ohio or someplace where they had.
Speaker 2: The Palestine, Ohio Palestine.
Speaker 8: Up and but for Joe Biden's not even set a
Speaker 8: foot in these palatines help those people out. This is
Speaker 8: absolutely disgriceful and I I appreciate you, Dan very much.
Speaker 8: I appreciate all you do, and I appreciate you letting
Speaker 8: me have the before here from me.
Speaker 2: You've had it and a lot that you said people
Speaker 2: will agree with and feel free to keep calling and
Speaker 2: listen every night. Thanks, thanks, very appreciate it.
Speaker 8: How about you, Dan, by bye, I'll about you good night.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Suzanne Susanne and Newton Susanne next
Speaker 2: time Nightsig go right.
Speaker 3: Ahead, Dan, thanks for taking my call. I think Gavin Newsoon,
Speaker 3: governor of California, is trying to say something called the
Speaker 3: spotted Newt. It's between the lizard and a fish, and
Speaker 3: that is what his main mission seems to be.
Speaker 2: Well, there was you know, there was there was some
Speaker 2: talk of that. Uh and I don't know enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talking about time I've been there. I heard others
Speaker 2: say that it was some sort of endangered smelt or
Speaker 2: something like that.
Speaker 6: But I like.
Speaker 2: The bottom line is that this was devastating. Every year
Speaker 2: they have the Santa Ana winds. They knew that it
Speaker 2: was a very dry summer out there, apparently very little rain,
Speaker 2: and once you get a fire started and those winds
Speaker 2: are blowing, uh, you know, the results were very predictable,
Speaker 2: very predictable.
Speaker 3: And it was like a kinder rocks because people want
Speaker 3: trees around their house, the palace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's a beautiful It was a beautiful area.
Speaker 2: It's going to take them generations. Generations were covered. So Zanne,
Speaker 2: hope you have a good weekend. Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: appreciate your calling.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Dan, you as well have a great Now.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Patrick down in the District of Columbia. Hi, Patrick,
Speaker 2: how are you?
Speaker 6: Bye, sir? And I definitely want to when things are
Speaker 6: not so term, you know, it's such turmoil. But boy,
Speaker 6: oh boy, this year has just kicked off with just
Speaker 6: an amazing just a few hours, a couple hours after
Speaker 6: midnight on January the first. My goodness, well, we're down
Speaker 6: to it.
Speaker 2: That true, and of course this now on top of it.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. It is just unbelievable.
Speaker 6: It's totally unbelievable. I'm looking thinking about is there such
Speaker 6: a thing as a massive American ingenuity that can run
Speaker 6: pipelines from the ocean and just was the darn place
Speaker 6: and put it all out from our navy ships. I mean,
Speaker 6: what is there is there American ingenuity to put this
Speaker 6: stuff out?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I mean under these circumstances. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm told that in the past I watched a lot
Speaker 2: of this and they said that, well, there's the Pacific
Speaker 2: Ocean half a mile away. The question is how do
Speaker 2: you physically get the water out of the ocean? Number one?
Speaker 2: And then number two. I guess they did have some
Speaker 2: ability with some of these planes, if they could get
Speaker 2: them up in the air. One of my listeners earlier
Speaker 2: tonight actually sent me a couple of emails, and the
Speaker 2: emails were talking about these and incredibly large planes and
Speaker 2: maybe you've heard of them. I frankly, I guess I
Speaker 2: had heard of them, but I didn't know a lot
Speaker 2: about them. And these are massive planes they called water
Speaker 2: supertankers seven forty Seven's the listener who wrote into me.
Speaker 2: His name is Steve. He's a pretty sharp guy, and
Speaker 2: he says, in the United States, these seven hundred, the
Speaker 2: seven forty seven supertankers are primarily based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado,
Speaker 2: at the Colorado Springs Airport, operated by a company called
Speaker 2: Global super Tanker. Apparently these are located there for convenient
Speaker 2: access for rapid deployments of the Western US. I've seen
Speaker 2: some pictures of these. These are huge planes. I guess
Speaker 2: they filled them with water. I have no idea how
Speaker 2: you could fill them with that amount of water, how
Speaker 2: the plane could get off the ground, but I assume
Speaker 2: they do. I assume they do. So anyone out there
Speaker 2: who and if Steve B. Happens to be listening and
Speaker 2: he can add to the conversation, love to hear from
Speaker 2: him on this. These just look like a huge plane.
Speaker 2: Almost looks like one of those planes that used to
Speaker 2: fly the SuperSonics to Europe in three hours. The concords.
Speaker 2: It sort of has that shape of the concord. I
Speaker 2: don't know how they would get the water on. I
Speaker 2: don't know how they get it up in the air,
Speaker 2: but if they could, it's going to deliver a lot
Speaker 2: more water in one fell swoop than some of these
Speaker 2: helicopters have been delivering. You watch the helicopter and the
Speaker 2: water comes out, and the water seems to dissipate before
Speaker 2: it hits the ground.
Speaker 6: You know, with my eye on the clock here, Dan,
Speaker 6: this could happen to any of us, to any of
Speaker 6: us in any city. And when you add back indo December,
Speaker 6: when you asked me about what I thought about the drones,
Speaker 6: and that I haven't heard because I've been knocking on
Speaker 6: doors in the watershed community of the Chesapake Bay about
Speaker 6: evacuations and how to organize yourself for evacuations and you know,
Speaker 6: how to look out for one another. But any of
Speaker 6: this can happen. This could happen to Boston, It could
Speaker 6: happen to Philly, Baltimore, DC. And we were taught earlier
Speaker 6: in the fifties and sixties. You know, when boys are
Speaker 6: boys and girls are girls. You know, the boys put
Speaker 6: fire first. And there's just certain practices that we used
Speaker 6: to do in our country that we just don't do anymore.
Speaker 6: And as you see the result of what when we
Speaker 6: don't use our common sense and do what we're supposed
Speaker 6: to do. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that Los Angeles and that part of
Speaker 2: California is particularly susceptible. Apparently they have not had a
Speaker 2: substantial rain out there since May, and you know when
Speaker 2: the Santa Ana winds are going to start to blow.
Speaker 2: I think that they're almost predictable, as when the birds,
Speaker 2: when the swallows returned to cal Pastrano in May whatever
Speaker 2: that rather March, you know, the one of the earliest
Speaker 2: signs of spring. It's I've never seen anything like this.
Speaker 2: This looks to me when I look at the video,
Speaker 2: I think about Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the in August
Speaker 2: of nineteen forty five. Everything is just leveled.
Speaker 6: This is the This is the real deal. There's there's
Speaker 6: no question about it. And I hope to pray that
Speaker 6: the ingenuity, the American ingenuity, will come along and of
Speaker 6: course say.
Speaker 2: I don't know how, I don't know how you rebuild
Speaker 2: a neighborhood of this. It's going to take them months
Speaker 2: just to clear the debris. At some point they're going
Speaker 2: to have to allow people to go back and see
Speaker 2: if there's anything they can salvage. I assume they have
Speaker 2: to search for bodies. They think there are more than
Speaker 2: ten people. This is a it's it's enormous. It's enormous. Patrick,
Speaker 2: keep that thinking up on and come up with something
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, Dan, thank you very much. I'm very sorry
Speaker 6: for the circumstances. Again, thank my fellow listeners for having
Speaker 6: me along. And I worry about them very much.
Speaker 2: Concerned about civil defenses is right up your alley. I
Speaker 2: know that we'll take a quick break right back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: We got Alex and Ruth and Brad and Steve and
Speaker 2: if we take this, want to take this in the
Speaker 2: next hour you decide, We'll be back on nightside after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's keep rolling here. We got a bunch of calls.
Speaker 2: Let's try to get everybody and Alex and Millis Alex
Speaker 2: next on Nightside. Your comments on Los Angeles is burning.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, my heartaches for those people. But therefore, the
Speaker 6: grace of God go. I you know, I was going
Speaker 6: to say, Dan, I was in a store and they
Speaker 6: were asking for a donation. So I was talking to
Speaker 6: a gentleman working the store, and he is from that area.
Speaker 6: He said to me that, uh, you know, years ago,
Speaker 6: equal these people well to do. Uh they were allowed
Speaker 6: to build there, you know, they somehow or other where
Speaker 6: they shouldn't have built. So actually I'm not I'm not
Speaker 6: trying to you know, kick them when they're down, but uh,
Speaker 6: you know those that area is is very very congested,
Speaker 6: you know, and and sometimes uh you have you have
Speaker 6: to allow you know, nature and not to not to
Speaker 6: take over, you know, by building and and you know,
Speaker 6: causing and so the homes, I guess are close together,
Speaker 6: but they're.
Speaker 2: They're they're close together. But there's homes all across America
Speaker 2: that are close together. Go to any urban, go to
Speaker 2: any city in America. Have you been to you know,
Speaker 2: to the back bay. Look there there are townhouses everywhere.
Speaker 2: That's that's the way Americans live. We don't live. It's
Speaker 2: not the sixteenth century where all of a sudden everybody
Speaker 2: lives on forty acres and has a mule, Alex. I
Speaker 2: mean that's the way people live.
Speaker 6: We could people, I'm sure, but yeah, yeah. The other
Speaker 6: thing is, you know, I mean where we live here.
Speaker 6: We're very fortunate because you know, we may complain about
Speaker 6: the cold or the snow if we get snowstorms, but
Speaker 6: you know, we don't have hurricanes. We don't have you know,
Speaker 6: we have hurricanes.
Speaker 2: Of course, we have hurricanes. We have hurricanes, we have blizzards,
Speaker 2: but we survive those. We've had plenty of hurricanes. We
Speaker 2: have a devastating hurricanes.
Speaker 6: Alex, right, but not to the degree of other parts
Speaker 6: of the country. You know, I think you know down
Speaker 6: south in Florida they're always getting tornado in the Midwest, tornadoes.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I will take our wed weather. And I've said
Speaker 2: that here a lot, and I think you agree on it.
Speaker 2: I'll take an occasional blizzard, you lose power for a
Speaker 2: day or two, I get it, Okay, I'll take an
Speaker 2: occasional hurricane compared to what we have other parts of
Speaker 2: the country, other parts of the world, unamis you have typhoons.
Speaker 2: Hurricanes are real hurricanes. Not in far. We've had some
Speaker 2: bad ones here. We've had there was a big hurricane
Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty four. We've had some bad hurricanes. We
Speaker 2: had the blizzard of seventy eight. Yeah, but nothing like
Speaker 2: what these folks have been through. Quote to them, all right.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was going to say, do you think you
Speaker 11: know our insurance rates will get affected because of this?
Speaker 2: I think everyone's insurance rates will get affected. That's how huge.
Speaker 6: We have nothing to do with the fires out there,
Speaker 6: but you know, no.
Speaker 2: That's what insurance is all about, Alex. You know, in
Speaker 2: other words, if you have a fire in your house,
Speaker 2: you you you buy insurance. It's sort of a hedge
Speaker 2: against if no one had insurance. That's that's the whole
Speaker 2: concept of insurance. The group takes takes on the responsibil ability.
Speaker 2: Will there be Will there be an impact here? Of
Speaker 2: course there will be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have insurance and you never make a claim.
Speaker 6: You make one claim and they want to cancel you.
Speaker 2: You know, well that's a different story. That's a different story,
Speaker 2: and they should not be able to do that. Alex.
Speaker 2: You gotta keep rolling. Thank you much, appreciate what you call.
Speaker 2: Let me go quickly here if I can, Brad and
Speaker 2: lean Brad next on Nightsiger right.
Speaker 6: Ahead, like good evening.
Speaker 1: Damn it.
Speaker 10: The place looks like a scene out of the Terminator movie.
Speaker 6: There the night went horrible quickly.
Speaker 10: One of my neighbors had a unique job. He used
Speaker 10: to go around to different cities towns and they used
Speaker 10: to check the water pressure on the hydrants. They used
Speaker 10: to measure the rate, the flow, the pressure, the whole deal.
Speaker 10: And he used to tell me, Oh, this city's got great,
Speaker 10: good place to live. These ones are bad and whatnot.
Speaker 10: And you know we're talking our area, but I'm sure
Speaker 10: they do that in every city, major, you know, whatever.
Speaker 10: So there's a bunch of people over there, and you know,
Speaker 10: I can't speak exactly, but people know what hydrants work,
Speaker 10: and they know the pressure. There's reports on this, and like,
Speaker 10: this stuff could have been addressed, It could have been fixed.
Speaker 10: I mean, and then you hear the previous cause twenty
Speaker 10: three billion dollars went elsewhere, and I mean, this is preventible,
Speaker 10: and like all I can think of is in Massachusetts,
Speaker 10: we got a lot of money going elsewhere to And
Speaker 10: I mean, you got to think that some of this
Speaker 10: stuff isn't happening here as well. And I mean you
Speaker 10: mentioned the back day, a moment ago, and God's a bid,
Speaker 10: something horrible like that happens, and these guys pull up
Speaker 10: and the hydrants are either have low pressure or the debt.
Speaker 2: Well, you know the back bay, Remember the Hotel von
Speaker 2: Dome with the all the firefighters who died in nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy two. We've had those incidents. Looking in Worcester, the
Speaker 2: cold storage fire that took the lives of five Worcester
Speaker 2: firefighters back, I guess it was in two thousand. It's
Speaker 2: almost twenty five years ago, or late nineteen ninety nine.
Speaker 2: They just had the twenty fifth anniversary. You have these tragedies,
Speaker 2: but nothing like on the scale of what we're looking
Speaker 2: at and terrible.
Speaker 10: But I mean some of these hydrants in the areas
Speaker 10: that aren't burnt yet, I mean they're going to run
Speaker 10: under the same issues in the areas that are burnt.
Speaker 2: Said, there's some question as to whether or not when
Speaker 2: they killed the electricity out there that impacted the ability
Speaker 2: of the hydrants to work. I'm not enough of an
Speaker 2: engineer or a technician to know about it, but there
Speaker 2: must be some lessons that can be learned simple as.
Speaker 10: Well with the palms popping it out and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thanks, Brad, I got to keep rolling here,
Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of you two. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 2: Let me get real quickly, June and Rhode Island, June
Speaker 2: your next time nights, I go right ahead.
Speaker 9: I did. I wanted to bring to your attention. I've
Speaker 9: been listening to Los Angeles News all week, day and
Speaker 9: night and getting the updates. There's a Pacific Palisades family
Speaker 9: fends off flames. It was a father, a son, and
Speaker 9: a greeand son and their last name was go Wings.
Speaker 9: And I saw a peace on it and I just
Speaker 9: googled it. And what he did was he took a generator,
Speaker 9: a pool pump, a garden hose, and a sprinkler system
Speaker 9: and drain the pool to protect his property during the fire.
Speaker 9: And so far he's okay, and he tried to help
Speaker 9: save some of the neighbors fire. So if you google it,
Speaker 9: it's very interesting and a lot of other people come
Speaker 9: up that have done similar things.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's always people, you know, June, There's always
Speaker 2: people who in crises are able to react because they
Speaker 2: know they have technical expertise. But the average person who
Speaker 2: might have a pool in their backyard, they don't have
Speaker 2: that technical acumen. They don't have that.
Speaker 9: No, you know what I'm saying, Gee, that was pretty ingenious.
Speaker 9: It's something he should you know, make a kit and
Speaker 9: sell for people.
Speaker 2: You gotta have a generator. That's expensive and you've got
Speaker 2: to be able to know how to do it and
Speaker 2: do it under pressure. Can you imagine if you're in
Speaker 2: that neighborhood and all of a sudden you saw the
Speaker 2: fire sweeping down the street where you live. You have
Speaker 2: two minutes to get out of your house. Those people
Speaker 2: have that thirty seconds are a minute to grab whatever
Speaker 2: they could grab. They could grab I don't know, some
Speaker 2: old pictures or what do you do? You grab? You
Speaker 2: grab your wallet, grab your purse, maybe grab if you
Speaker 2: have a passport, you grab some check books. But it's
Speaker 2: it's all gone.
Speaker 9: It's all gone, very very sad. It's very very stressful
Speaker 9: for everyone there.
Speaker 2: And I got you in before the ten, but I
Speaker 2: got a break for news here. So as always, thanks
Speaker 2: for your loyalty and thanks for listening. Tonight, it's gonna
Speaker 2: call over. Thank you much. Thank okay to those of
Speaker 2: you on the line, to Ruth, to Jerry, and to Steve.
Speaker 2: Stay there. We will take your calls in the next
Speaker 2: hour and we will stick with this. If you want to,
Speaker 2: we can talk about the Donald Trump story on Monday
Speaker 2: night if we have to, but we're gonna stick with
Speaker 2: this into the next hour. Back on Night's side after
Speaker 2: this