News · moment 7 of 27
Eli Roth's Text and the Homeless Arsonist Video
from LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426 · #426
3 min
News
Tim reads a text from director Eli Roth describing a homeless man seen lighting a sewer fire near his home, then plays and reacts to news footage of a homeless arsonist arrest.
- Officials claiming everything is fine while entire swaths of Los Angeles are gone, with no water in hydrants and no preventive brush clearing or control burns done.
- Pacific Palisades Reservoir was offline when fires arrived; preparation was completely inadequate.
- Mayor was in Africa, governor at his vineyard—government bungled the response entirely.
- One or two fires were definitely arson, possibly set by homeless people or someone posing as homeless to avoid detection.
- Eli Roth texted Tim about a homeless man pouring gasoline down a sewer grate and lighting it on fire on Wednesday afternoon near his home in Pacific Palisades.
- Two hours after that first fire was extinguished, Runyon Canyon suddenly erupted in flames with no burning embers nearby—residents watched it spread from their bedroom window.
- Homeless man with a flamethrower arrested on suspicion of arson near the Kenneth fire after residents detained him.