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Newsom orders investigation of Los Angeles fire hydrant failures
Reports that fire hydrants were running dry as crews attempted to save homes and businesses in Pacific Palisades quickly grabbed national ... putting the bulk of the pressure on the fire hydrant ...
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No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage
By Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken, Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Audrey Ash and Nelli Black, CNN (CNN) — Even as flames in Southern ...
Why did fire hydrants run dry across Los Angeles?
Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the ...
An Important Reservoir Was Offline When the Fires Began
The Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood had been shut down. Water there normally helps replenish tanks ...
Things we lost in the fire
E.A. Hanks is the author of the forthcoming book “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road.” ...
Local landmarks lost and damaged by raging Los Angeles fires
As fires continue to burn through Southern California, some of the region's landmarks have been burned or destroyed by the blazes.
Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline and empty when firestorm exploded
A reservoir in the Palisades that holds 117 million gallons of water was offline this month for previously scheduled ...
Why some fire hydrants in LA had no water to fight the fires, despite full reservoirs
Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish ...
Paradise Destroyed: Fire Razes LA Enclave Bigger Than Manhattan
The Pacific Palisades blaze has wreaked havoc on over 5,000 structures and is set to reshape Los Angeles long after it burns ...
On the Ground for ‘Apocalyptic’ LA Wildfires: 5 TV Reporters Talk Covering Unprecedented Level of Destruction
Reporters from NBC News, CBS, ABC, Fox News and NewsNation tell TheWrap about the historic damage Los Angeles wildfires have ...
Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also ...
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High Winds Return as Firefighters Struggle to Contain L.A. Fires: Updates
With the fires still burning out of control, it’s currently unknown how many structures have been destroyed as a result of ...