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Hey folks, welcome to part 7 of Fanning the Flames of the War on California, part 7, Still

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Propaganda.

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Well, this was just sent to me about a book that just came out, Malibu Burning by Robert

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Kerbeck.

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And Malibu is the forgotten story that occurred on the same day as Paradise when people only

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had one way out.

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I did an extensive interview with Lori Lori who escaped barely with her life and her children

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and her pets as she escaped and had to live in a hotel room for months and some of you

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were kind enough to donate generously to her and she's back on her feet and she's

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doing okay.

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Still struggling, still struggling with PTSD from the fires, still reading what's going

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on, bringing back the haunting memories, but she is safe.

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So the story is going to be presented by this shill, Robert Kerbeck, who is on one of the

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corporate news medias down in LA setting the propaganda.

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And again, they're not going to talk about really what happened, they're not going to

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directed energy weapons or how they had three days to prepare Malibu and how the fire just

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suddenly went towards Malibu and nowhere else.

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Even in the Beatles song or the Eagle song, Last Resort, details that Paradise and Malibu

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in the same song kiss it goodbye.

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And take a look at this picture from the image here.

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That's a directed energy weapon there.

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These are directed energy attacks, but you won't hear this shill talk about it.

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So I want to break down his story.

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I want to break down the truth about how they lie to us and how they show us the propaganda,

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but also that the facts are that the police department, the fire department in Malibu

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stood down, they've erased the articles, but there's corruption everywhere in these departments.

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Everywhere you look, there's corruption in Freemasonry behind all of the stories that

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are being sold to us.

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All right, so let's get into the propaganda problem reaction solution.

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California Edison acknowledged its equipment may be responsible for starting one of the

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most destructive fires in our state.

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The Woolsey fire started a year ago on November 8th that burned nearly 97,000 acres in Los

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Angeles and Ventura counties, destroying more than 1600 structures, injuring three firefighters

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and killed three people.

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And in the midst of all of that, our next guest was among the Malibu residents who chose

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to stay and defend his home once he realized the flames were approaching with no fire

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trucks in sight.

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The whole neighborhood is going up in flames.

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We're fighting to save our house.

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I'm feeling the heat now from these fires for the first time.

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That's Robert.

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Joining us now is Malibu resident Robert Kerbeck.

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He's the author of the new book Malibu Burning, an investigative memoir into the real story

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behind the Woolsey fire.

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Welcome.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for having me.

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So you convicted more than 200 interviews, including residents, the deputy fire chief,

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Malibu City Council members.

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How did your interviews compare to the Woolsey fire report that just came out detailing a

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lack of communication?

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Sure.

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I mean, you know, for residents, the report is never going to capture what it was like

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to be inside the experience.

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And so that was one of the reasons I wrote the book, because I wanted people from outside

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to see what it felt like to be part of a disaster, part of an unprecedented fire.

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It's the by far worst fire in L.A. County history.

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One of the big discussions from the Woolsey fire report was about how evacuations and

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communications were handled.

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Was there an effective plan in place for how to get people out safely?

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And do you think it can be improved in the future?

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To be frank, there was not an effective evacuation plan.

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The Pacific Coast Highway, as you know, is really the only way in and out of Malibu.

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The canyon roads were closed because of the fire.

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And so people sat in gridlock for six to eight hours watching as the fire crept down the

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hillsides and got closer and closer.

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In the future, the city of Malibu is creating zones for evacuation so that rather than

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calling for everybody to leave at the exact same time, they can call zone one and zone

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two and then a few hours later, they can have other zones so that the highway is not going

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to be overwhelmed.

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Your book also looks at the ignition point of the fire near the Santa Susanna Field Laboratory.

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And I take it that you learned a lot about sort of the nuclear research that used to

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go on there.

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Yeah, and that was one of the most surprising and shocking things for me because here we

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have the worst fire in L.A. County history starting on the site of a secret nuclear

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meltdown.

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In 1959, there was a meltdown.

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The public was never told about it for 20 years.

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The site to this day has never been cleaned up.

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And of course, then the question becomes if you have cesium and strontium and plutonium

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in the soil and in the brush that has grown on that abandoned site and you have this

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horrific fire with these 70 mile an hour winds, what happens to those radioactive materials?

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Yeah, so.

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In doing so, is there anything that could have prevented the Woolsey fire from doing

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so much damage that it did to your community?

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Is there anything that looking ahead that can be done differently?

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Sure, well, you know, we're facing an epidemic of wildfires.

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We've seen it the last few weeks.

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I think that every agency and every homeowner can do better.

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And so the simplest thing I tell all homeowners is everybody should harden their home.

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Ember resistant vents are inexpensive.

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Everybody in L.A. County should have ember and in California should have ember resistant

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vents.

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You know, the two ways homes burn down, embers get inside your home and catch your home

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on fire or something around your home catches on fire.

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It's very rarely the home itself that goes up.

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So ember resistant vents.

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And then, of course, we talk about it all the time, but it's still not done the way

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it should be done is.

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So that not only are you protecting your property, you're protecting your neighborhood

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as well.

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What do you think, what would you say to people who would suggest that, look, we know there

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are historically sort of burn areas, historic burn areas.

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We know that fires burn into Malibu along a certain track, either every year or every

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few days.

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So we're not going to have a fire that's going to be in the area.

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We're going to have a fire that's going to be in the area.

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You shouldn't build there.

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You shouldn't be living there.

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And if you do, you should, you know, have the burden of the costs of both firefighting

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and insurance, and it shouldn't be passed along to the rest of us.

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Well, I mean, I think that's a valid argument.

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But I also think that, you know, homes are in places all over our country that if we

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could draw up where to build and where not to build, you know, fire, you know, we could

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draw up where to build and where not to build.

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You know, Florida has their issues.

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You know, we have hurricanes and tornadoes.

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So, you know, we have New Orleans.

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So unless we're going to move everybody out of every area where there are weather issues,

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I think it really is about the hardening, the hardening of the homes, recognizing where

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you live.

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And I mean, one of my neighbors, their home burned down, and I saw the other day, they're

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building a wood fence.

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So that just doesn't seem like people are understanding that you live in this naturally,

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you know, one of the most, you know, it's, you know, Northern California, Southern California,

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the most, you know, wildfire prone areas in the country.

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So I think just the homeowners just need to be cognizant of that.

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You saw your tape at the beginning with the false check on your own.

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Did you save your home?

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Well, as you can see, that was my wife.

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So I'll give full credit to her because she's tougher than I am.

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But she was the one that really, you know, she grew up here.

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She understands wildfires.

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I'm from Philadelphia.

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I didn't really.

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So she was kind of the, you know, the captain of our fire engine, and I followed her orders.

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And yes, we did save the house.

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And 17 of 19 on our street burned to the ground.

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180 out of 275 in our neighborhood.

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We live in Malibu Park right above Zuma Beach, and the neighborhood was devastated.

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Well, thank you so much for coming.

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Oh, well, thank you.

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It's an important issue, and I appreciate your time.

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Sure is.

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Robert Kerbeck at his book signing event.

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You can meet him this Sunday afternoon at Diesel Bookstore on 26th Street in Santa Monica.

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Robert, thank you.

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Thanks, Rune.