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Originally Posted by Crowbob
This post is disingenuous and you know it, Speedo.
Nobody says an empty reservoir that should have been full caused the fire. Your logic leads to the ridiculous notion that if a fire is big enough, it’s not the water management honcho’s fault. Everybody knew the dangers, even the people partying in Ghana. Every resource should have been at the ready. Apparently, hours went by before orders went out.
Nothing will change as long as the people responsible for mismanaging this disaster are not held accountable.
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People are blaming the empty reservoir for being at least a significant part of not being able to put out this fire sooner before it burned up the Palisades. Not anyone with actual knowledge of what occurred and maybe not you but it's being mentioned by plenty of idiots. Would it have helped in the overall effort to have more water? Yes. Would it have stopped this fire once it got rolling? No.
You are correct and I agree about failures in leadership and wrong decisions leading up to these fires. The response in the Palisades was too little, too late. The fire to really be pissed-off about is the Eaton fire, which was 100% preventable if the power company had followed its own guidelines for cutting power in an extreme wind event:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-15/la-me-edison-ceo