Santa Ynez Reservoir, 2.15 mile NNW of Pacific Palisades community, currently empty
Santa Ynez Reservoir, when it was full
The Sierra Club stopped it from coming on line.
When the fire hydrants were going dry the year before the fire department did not bother to figure out why? This is criminal negligence.
They need to move the responsibility for fire hydrant maintenance and the piping infrastructure that supports them to the fire department. One throat to choke. In fact the fire department should own and maintain its own reservoirs feeding the fire hydrants.
That salary + perks is obscene. Especially considering the less than stellar performance.
Maybe this is why State Farm insurance stopped insuring that area a few months ago. They knew there was no water in the reservoir and the fire hydrants were in disrepair.
LA water chief knew about empty reservoir, broken hydrants months before fires: Report
The National Desk ^ | 1/11/25
Posted on 1/11/2025, 6:25:27 PM by EBH
Los Angeles’ water chief reportedly knew about an empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months before the deadly wildfires now spreading across the city that have left some communities in ashes.
The Daily Mail reports the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones was hired by Mayor Karen Bass on a $750,000 salary in May.
Now, LA Fire Department insiders are blaming Quiñones for a nearby reservoir disconnection and broken fire hydrants, the outlet reports, claiming this has led to firefighters running out of water.
The Mail reports that Quiñones’ past employer was linked to fire scandals. Quiñones previously held a top executive role at electric company PG&E. The company previously went bankrupt over liability for several California wildfires, the outlet reports.
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Newscum has already started lying about this.
The nice thing about single-party rule is that those in it can get away with anything.
Trump should give California the relief package Biden gave to North Carolina, and give Biden’s California package to North Carolina.
Seems only fair.
Does the FD never do tests to check the hydrants for water and pressure levels? The fire chief should have had a regular schedule for every single hydrant to be checked for operability. From one end of the city to the other there should have been a data sheet that could be pulled up to tell when the last hydrant check occurred and the pressure level at that time. If the reservoir had been out of operation since last February, the FD should have known.
This is a total failure of leadership from the top down in every infrastructure and disaster related department. If they hadn’t been so focused on DIE and making sure a lesbian was in every job position, maybe someone could have created and performed such a systems check.
No one should have to tell the firefighters (presuming they didn't know). The hallmark of being a firefighter is not to put your fate in the hands of others and unquestionably trust that other people outside your department are doing their job. You don't want lives or property lost because you depended on some incompetent person or agency. If they weren't already doing so, they should have sent someone to check the reservoir on a regular basis and if it was found to be unacceptably low, to squeal like a stuck pig to whoever is responsible for maintaining adequate levels and to keep records of all this.
Ain’t DEI great? 750k The salaries are unbelievable.
Breitbart News reported a Newsweek story:
<><>Newsom cut $100 million from California’s fire prevention budget in 2024,
<><>Newsom endangered the area now being affected by the wildfires.
<><>globe trotter LA Mayor Karen Bass also cut almost $20 million from the city’s budget
<><>Bass deliberately cut “fire services” for the current fiscal year.
<><>a leaked memo showed Bass had another $45 million cut in the works.
Decades ago, nobody noticed when it was a bunch of boring, old white guys taking care of things.
Yes, DEI is the main culprit but I would add ENVIRONMENTALISM TO THE LIST OF THE GUILTY and their total ABSENCE OF FIRE PREPAREDNESS!!!
"It was unavoidable. Nobody could have stopped it. It is a once in a lifetime experience. Even if the reservoirs had been full and the hydrants had pressure, nobody could have stopped it. It is nobody's fault. This is all politicized attacks for partisan purposes."
Sure sounds like it was taken right out of Atlas Shrugged, doesn't it?
The fire department has much more important things to do than checking the water supply
Come on everybody, times have changed, it’s a brave new world, you can’t hold on to those rigid principles. These people that aren’t that smart need these jobs too, stop expecting them to be able to live up to your standards and high expectations.
But the FEMA chief says LA was completely prepared for this fire. What would unprepared look like?
Santa Ynez Reservoir, when it was full
Does the legacy media know this?