Wildfires Are Revealing the Limits of Our Hydrant Systems
While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large ...
These L.A. Homeowners Installed Private Fire Hydrants. Here’s How They Fared.
Our reporter caught up with a number of people who had prepared for wildfires with built-in systems. ‘I’m sleeping with one ...
Officials were warned of failing water system before Palisades fire. Fixes never happened
Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure ...
Lawsuit says critical water source sat dry for months before Palisades Fire
Victims of the Palisades Fire are suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for hampering firefighting efforts.
Hilltop reservoir that could've fed Palisades hydrants was empty; Newsom orders probe
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into why the 117 million gallon hilltop reservoir above the Pacific ...
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'All the hydrants up here are dead.' Radio traffic recounts LA firefighters losing water
NPR transcribed 2,000 hours of radio communications from the LA fires. It shows hydrants going dry and first responders ...
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Pacific Palisades couple's home with fire resilient features survives wildfire
LOS ANGELES -- Michael Kovac and his wife Karina Maher moved to the Pacific Palisades in the Los Angeles ... Here are the specific fire resilient features utilized on their home, as outlined ...
Factbox-Utilities Face Increasing Scrutiny in LA Wildfires
That lawsuit included eyewitness accounts of a fire at the base of an SCE transmission tower, as well as data from electrical ...