Three large water tanks in the Pacific Palisades area ran out by early Wednesday morning, officials said, reducing water ...
Firefighters battling the Palisades fire dealt with hydrants that had little to no water flowing out. By 3 a.m. Wednesday, ...
Firefighters reported being unable to access water from hydrants as they defended homes and businesses in Pacific Palisades.
Los Angeles officials said a "tremendous" demand — four times normal levels — during the Palisades fire caused some hydrants ...
I mean those hydrants are typical for two or three fires — maybe one fire and you have something of this scale, but again ...
No air support meant immense pressure on the hydrant system - which simply was not designed for the volume of fire we're seeing in Los Angeles.
As wildfires ravaged Los Angeles, firefighters faced an unexpected obstacle: a significant number of fire hydrants ran dry. This critical issue sparked outrage and debate over the adequacy of the city ...
The wildfires in Los Angeles continued to burn mostly out of control, with at least five blazes being fueled by dry ...
Erik Scott, the LAFD's public information officer, said on X Wednesday that the DWP had proactively filled all available storage tanks in the Palisades area, but water availability "was impacted at ...