I other words, they weren't prepared.More nonsense and bullshit from you!
Here are the facts, reading is your friend.
Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame 'tremendous demand'
Firefighters battling the Palisades fire dealt with hydrants that had little to no water flowing out. By 3 a.m. Wednesday, all hydrants 'went dry,' an LADWP official says.www.latimes.com
Quiñones and other DWP officials said that the city was fighting a wildfire in hilly terrain with an urban water system, and that at lower elevations in Pacific Palisades, water pressure remained strong.
Before the fire, all 114 tanks that supply the city water infrastructure were completely filled.
Quiñones said that the hydrants in the Palisades rely on three large water tanks with about 1 million gallons each. The first ran dry at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday; the second at 8:30 p.m.; and the third was dry at 3 a.m. Wednesday.
“Those tanks help with the pressure on the fire hydrants in the hills in the Palisades, and because we were pushing so much water in our trunk line, and so much water was being used. ... we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough,” she said. “So the consumption of water was faster than we can provide water in a trunk line.”
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In other words, the demand for water at lower elevations was hampering the ability to refill the tanks located at higher elevations. Because of the ongoing fire, DWP crews also faced difficulty accessing its pump stations, which are used to move water up to the tanks.
They spent $400 million getting their port to be "green" and focused on DEI while slashing millions from the fire fighters' budget rather then invest in the infrastructure necessary to fight the fires properly.
That's what happens when you have a state that has been democrat for the past 20 years.