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There are several other reservoirs that feed the system that are at or above capacity. There is simply not a lack of water to the system. The problem is maintaining water in the pressure tanks during such a high load. The system lacked that capacity as beyond its design.
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Yes, the largest cisterns are 75,000 gallons, much like the one near my friends at Buena Vista East & Buena Vista Terrace. It is very useful for a pumper truck to get water for a structure fire. Some 100 pumps went dry due to the demand in Pacific Palisades. That cistern would supply 750 gallons to each truck at each non-working hydrant. The standard 1.75 feet fire hose , an "attack' line, uses of 120 to 180 gallons per minute, so it would last 4-to-7 minutes before the cistern ran dry. That should give you an idea of the scale of the demand placed on this system. San Francisco is about the size of the Palisades Fire and has 177 cisterns, most smaller than 75,000 gallons. If Pacific Palisades had that many, they would have run dry by the 463 fire trucks in about half an hour. The Super Scooper air plane can drop about 13,000 gallons an hour or about as much as the cisterns hold in 6 hours. There three such planes there now with more on the way. They won't dry until the Pacific Ocean does.
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@SirHC888 There wasn't any failure by the mayor or the governor. There simply is not the funds to clear the dry brush from the area during this unusual drought. Usually, the area would have recently experienced a rain storm as this is the rainy season there. There are steep canyons and bluffs there that cannot be easily kept in order. As a Canadian, you may not remember all the stories of Reagan going home to his ranch in Santa Barbara to clear bush. This area is similar but hillier than his Santa Barbara home. With winds at 100 mph, stopping embers from going everywhere is simply not feasible.
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@uzlonewolf Several of the homes were inherited from the parents, as with Jeff Bridges, so the tax amount was set to the 1978 value.
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@BigEightiesNewWave The work is being done and the money has been paid according the schedule set for work completion.
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There isn't a municipal water system in the world designed and built to supply this kind of disaster. Blaming government officials is purely partisan and in poor taste.
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Really? How did you hear about it? Are you there in Pacific Palisades?
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You video leaves out that the pressure tanks that maintained water and pressure could not be replenished quickly enough. Their supply pumps and lines simply lacked the capacity to carry sufficient water to them at or above the rate the water was being used. There isn't any evidence there was insufficient water available to the system as a whole as there are multiple reservoirs that feed the system and are at or above normal. The planned loss of one reservoir did not impact the water supply. Lastly, the idea the $17 million cut has any bearing is simply ludicrous. The fire started some seven days into the year and I doubt the firefighters lost their training and knowledge in that week they did not have access to training such that they couldn't fight fires. The fact you cited, the system demand was at four fold the normal load for a sustained period of time, is the reason some of the hydrants went dry. Most did not, but this system was not built nor designed to carry sufficient water to fight a wild fire, it was to supply water for homes and fight a few structure fires. Due to the high winds, the fire could not be fought by air in the early hours when such water drops would have been most effective. The major limit on the system right now is simply the number of firefighters available and the equipment to support them. Some have been working for 96 hours. Relief from out of the LA area, some as far away as Canada and Mexico are now arriving to provide relief and staffing.
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