The Summary
- Demand for water to fight the Palisades Fire led the community s water tanks to temporarily dry up.
- The Los Angeles Fire Department said that hampered firefighting efforts.
- Experts said the area s water system simply wasn t designed for fire disasters of this magnitude.
Water is in high demand to combat the rapidly The Palisades In the past day or so, several fire hydrants and all three of the community’s water tanks have been temporarily dried up.
The Los Angeles Fire Department claimed that this hindered efforts to put out the fire, but it did not go into detail about the particular difficulties or how it overcame them.
There is currently no containment on the Palisades Fire, which started Tuesday morning. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated as more than 15,000 acres have burnt. The fire is the most damaging in Los Angeles history, with an estimated 1,000 structures destroyed.
Hydrants in the neighboring Altadena region were either down or had limited water pressure, according to firefighters fighting the Eaton Fire.
The Palisades water system maintained four times its typical demand for 15 hours in a row, according to Janisse Quiones, head engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The water supply to hydrants in the hills was disturbed, she claimed, because it was hard to replace water tanks fast enough to keep pressure.At one time, technicians attempting to divert water were forced to leave due to the ferocity of the fire, according to the water department.
Each of our three huge water tanks holds over a million gallons. At approximately 4:45 p.m. yesterday, we ran out of water in the first tank. At a news conference on Wednesday, Qui Ones stated that we ran out of water in the second tank about 8:30 p.m. and the third tank at 3 a.m. this morning.
The supply line still has water in it, she continued, but it is unable to climb the hill since we are not filling the tanks quickly enough.
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