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.
“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.”
Checking the hydrants individually would have shown normal flow and operation. This was an aggregate high-demand problem.