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Originally Posted by Dpmulvan
First day of the palisades fire early they were out of water or had no water in many places.
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As said, there were elevation-related shortages:
"Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said the Palisades water system sustained four times its usual demand for 15 hours straight. That made it difficult to refill water tanks quickly enough to maintain pressure, she said, which in turn disrupted the water supply to hydrants in the hills. According to the water department, crews trying to reroute water at one point had to evacuate because of the fire’s intensity.
“We have three large water tanks, about a million gallons each. We ran out of water in the first tank at about 4:45 p.m. yesterday [Tuesday]. We ran out of water in the second tank about 8:30 p.m. and the third tank about 3 a.m. this morning,” Quiñones said at a news conference Wednesday.
She added that there is still water in the supply line — “it just cannot get up the hill because we cannot fill the tanks fast enough.”