LADWP addresses water supply for firefighters

Officials with the LADWP are urging residents and businesses to conserve as much water as possible as firefighters are in dire need of the water supply to continue battling four major wildfires.

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[RobxRod]

LADWP paying $750k a year salary for this failure is peak LA corruption.

[TheFreitagfamily]

Rancho Palos Verdes Reservoir is also empty and out of service. They spent $35-$45 million to refurbish, add a cover and fill it in 2019 and then put it out of service afterwards. What a waste of MILLIONS! This need’s investigated!

[TheHypnotstCollector]

5 Empty Reservoirs. Held unknown Millions of gallons. Palisades reservoir held 117 Million Gallons. But it's Empty. Not acceptable.

[CaseNotesOnFile]

The last time the LADWP Board of Commissioners held a meeting was on Dec. 10, 2024 (viewable on the LADWP Board of Water & Power Commissioners channel on YouTube) and Quiñones was no-show because of a trip to Washington D.C. They’ve not held another meeting since then and canceled the meeting set for today. I’m guessing their next meeting (January 28th) will be about congratulating each other on the great job they’ve done so far for the environment and the people of Los Angeles. 🙄

[modithor]

They cannot tell people not to use their water hose it saved many homes.

[TheFreitagfamily]

So someone making $750k a year in an area prone to dry high winds and fires wasn’t able to plan ahead? You sure she didn’t get the big salary to turn a blind eye and allow this to happen?

[ChiliPepper-oy]

In other words "We didn't plan for this type of situation"

[leejouglard]

All government employees salaries are ridiculous and need to have a reset. This guy ( girl) not only gets$750, 000 a year but also a healthy pension and now biden just increased the amount of social security he will get.

[Mob]

Los Angeles residents should be outraged in so many different ways

[JamilaKatura]

All of what everybody is saying is irrelevant at this point since the whole City was burned down!

[miladn]

The tanks have been apparently left moatly empty, and now they need to make up for all that water at once

[Melvin-sf]

LA this is your fault for voting in incompetence. Keep it going

[OutdoorsmanPack]

It’s funny they were dumping reservoirs because they were full a year ago 😂 even LA is too broke for LA

[garyvenuti]

3 large water tanks (reservoirs?) about 1 million gallons each sounds ridiculously small (without knowing how the system works) given the large homes, commercial buildings and brush in the area. Has she ever heard of something called booster fire pumps?
The real question that should be asked, "was a proper risk assessment ever done?"
If LA needs a real Water Engineer to fix this, I am available.

[baybeepretty]

We all paid for ca to prepare for these fires and this happens

[paulmanoli]

Have the hydrants been flushed recently ? Hydrants should be flushed once per year . At most two years.

[patrickperegrino]

Californians pay this clueless guy $750k a year and all they get are these lame suggestions?

[JamilaKatura]

They had this whole press conference just to turn around and say the reservoir was empty this is why there was no water... Somebody Lyin!🤷🏽‍♀️

[shaun]

Uh really! How close are y'all to the ocean!? I get it the salinity of ocean water can damage the holding tanks and pumps but we are talking about immediate use not storing the water in the trucks. Facial expressions of the sign language lady says it all!

[IanBurg]

How much do ppl pay live there??? And you didn’t have any water fight this?? Let’s watch the buck get passed on this one