LIVE: LA Officials hold press conference on wildfires in Southern California

[ctwatcher]

$750, 000 and didn't know to fill up the water hydrants. Does she get a medal and a raise?! Or arrested for not doing her job?

[franniezoe]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏My grandson is a heavy equipment operator with CalFire. Be safe, dear Stewart.

[travist]

Pray for and help your neighbors who are suffering because of horrible mismanagement from their elected leaders!

[melvinjohnson]

How many woke city officials does it take for a press conference? Get of you azzes and start fighting the fires and arresting looters.

[thePretendgineer]

Real talk here. Can we stop with the sign interpreters and go back to text captions please?
Sign interpreters are only useful to the somewhere between half a million and a million and a half folks on the continent that actually know ASL.
Captions are useful to LITERALLY EVERYBODY. Slightly hard of hearing? Captions. Gotta watch on mute? Captions. Completely deaf? Captions.
Not only is the information density higher, it's more accurate and orders of magnitude more folks can use it.

Edit: To the people saying "do both" or "why are you mad deaf people get to participate too!!!11" - You're completely missing the point here. Public money funded this. It funds it in every single video you see it in. We're putting public dollars into the least effective way to convey information they could come up with short of writing each letter on a marker board and erasing the board completely between letters.
When public money is involved, we need to be sure we're doing the most effective thing we can for the money. This ain't it. It's straight up virtue signaling. "We support the disabled!" Except for the disabled we don't support, which is like 95% of the actually hard of hearing.

To those saying "just use the YT auto captions!" Sure, you could. They aren't accurate in like 99% of situations, but you could. The counter to that then is what's the point of the interpreter if you already have auto-generated captions to everybody viewing the stream/video and the TV stations broadcasting it will have their own real captions. Again, the money doesn't need to be spent. Statistically speaking, there's a ~25% chance ONE person in attendance "speaks" ASL. Not NEEDS to, just knows the language.

Stop spending money on dumb useless shit. That's the entire point I'm trying to make. Put that money into things that actually help disabled folks.

[danijudy]

OMG it's a city run by Karens! The results are devastating, but shouldn't be surprising

[kmetzi]

All of these resources and 0% containment due to high winds. We must do better next time.

[rlc]

Could someone give a TLDR of the most important points?

[paulscrow]

Why didn't the fire hydrants work yesterday?

[Bloodshotty]

A wonderful DEI fire department. Thank you Obama for endorsing Karen Bass for LA Mayor.

[jcw]

Obvious another DEI hire and this is the result.

[danielgothits]

meanwhile the mayor Karen Bass is in Ghana, Africa on vacation lol. u cant make it up

[HeresJohnny-bu]

why did they alow that woman in the pink sweter to show gang meember signs ?

[Garygarygarygary]

I know you meed all the help you can get but "FAITH BASED"?? What? LA doesn't have govt funded fire fighters? What kind of brain washing during crisis are you implementing? Knock it off!!

[mehill]

The situation is still growing and getting worse and all these clowns are tripping over themselves to be on stage talking. They gotta be seen and gotta be heard. Not a single person up there is relaying a single thing that couldn’t be read by a single representative. So much money being wasted on that stage that could be spent on useful resources actually fighting the fire right now. These people should all be embarrassed. You should be in the field actually coordinating and leading.

[peachmonks]

Completely needless destruction. These fires are almost always caused by homeless but nobody will get serious about the threat they pose

[robertmorales]

U.S.
When L.A. fires broke out, the 117-million gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir near Pacific Palisades was empty. Here's what we know.
By Julia Ingram, Jui Sarwate
Updated on: January 14, 2025 / 9:37 AM EST / CBS News


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 firefighters quickly depleted available water resources, city officials said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday he was launching an independent state investigation into the loss of water pressure and unavailability of water from the reservoir. He directed Los Angeles' Department of Water and Power (DWP) to prepare a "comprehensive review" of their efforts to ensure available water supply in case of emergencies.



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The Palisades Fire erupted on Tuesday, Jan. 7, and by 3 a.m., the three 1-million-gallon water tanks in Pacific Palisades ran dry due to "extreme demand, " officials said. Winds gusting over 100 miles per hour prevented air support from helping to douse the flames with other water sources.

"We had a tremendous demand on our system in the Palisades. We pushed the system to the extreme, " said Janisse Quiñones, the DWP's chief executive and chief engineer, in a press conference Wednesday. "Four times the normal demand was seen for 15 hours straight, which lowered our water pressure."

Here's what we know about the reservoir and its role in the Palisades water supply system.

Why was the Santa Ynez Reservoir empty when the fires broke out?

The reservoir was taken out of service to "meet safe drinking water regulations, " the DWP said in a statement. A tear in the reservoir's cover made the water supply subject to contamination, the Los Angeles Times reported, leading the agency to drain it in February.

"The water system serving the Pacific Palisades area and all of Los Angeles meets all federal and state fire codes for urban development and housing, " the release said.

DWP representatives did not respond to further questions about the reservoir from CBS News. The agency's statement suggested that the fact the reservoir was empty for nearly a year was in part due to the process of contracting a company to carry out the repairs.