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Originally Posted by Dpmulvan
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Yeah, the LA water system was not set up to battle 30,000 acres simultaneously burning. I doubt any municipal water system in the world could handle that level of demand. In this case, only hydrants over a certain elevation went dry. But because water-dropping airccraft were grounded for the first day and a half, all the demand was on the department of water & power for the Los Angeles portion of the fires. Remember, over 30% of the burned acreage was outside of Los Angeles proper.