Wednesday, January 8, 2025

lafd sucked 3 water tanks dry - the palisades fire

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/los-angeles-fire-captain-details-strain-on-city-s-water-system/vi-AA1xbOru

3 million gallons of water

?????????

lets do some math - looks like they should have been able to run 20
1.5 inch lines for 24 hours

1. how much of the water was wasted? 90%?

2. why didnt the water tanks get refilled? did the power fail? was
their no backup power?

iirc the oakland hills fire had the same problem back in 1991

we did see video of one engine company who said they had multi
hydrants with low pressure

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