Los Angeles reservoirs filled before blazes, except for one needing repairs | Fact check
Except for a reservoir with a damaged cover that had to be drained, Los Angeles had kept its reservoirs filled before the ...
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This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came
After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning ... they built a reservoir in Santa Ynez Canyon, as well as a pumping station “to increase ...
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Reservoir in Pacific Palisades was out of commission when fire started
The reservoir’s status may have limited the water system’s ability to provide consistent pressure for firefighters, but Marty Adams, a former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of ...
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When L.A. fires broke out, the 117-million gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir near Pacific Palisades was empty. Here's what we know.
The Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon water resource near the Pacific Palisades, was under renovation and empty when fires tore through the Los Angeles neighborhood last week and ...
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An important reservoir was offline when the fires began.
Records show it was recently set to undergo maintenance to the reservoir’s cover. Ellen Cheng, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said in a statement on Friday that ...
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Why was 117-million-gallon capacity reservoir not used during Palisades firefight?
PACIFIC PALISADES, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some are questioning why the Santa Ynez reservoir, located in the Palisades Highlands, was offline during the Palisades Fire firefight. The reservoir has a ...
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No, Los Angeles didn’t refuse to fill water reservoirs prior to fires
“Fundamentally, it is not correct that LADWP refused to properly fill the reservoir needed to fight the fire,” a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) told VERIFY.
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California fire hydrants have a power problem
along with the unavailability of the Santa Ynez Reservoir for water supply, led Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) to call for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Los Angeles County to conduct ...
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Reservoir in Pacific Palisades was out of commission when fire started
A 117-million gallon reservoir in one of the Los Angeles communities ravaged by wildfires was out of commission when the fire started in the area on Tuesday. The Santa Ynez Reservoir in the ...