LIVE: Pasadena officials and state representatives hold press conference on California wildfires

Pasadena officials and state representatives give an update on the California wildfires.

Credit: ABC7 Los Angeles
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[ChronicallyEngaged]

Thank you for everyone who helped with the fires. Pasadena resident here ❤

[nplawz]

I'm a resident and really need to know this info but I’m not strong enough to deal with the fires AND the trolls. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves.

[rocntcb]

Sorry for the loss of life and property to all effected. Prayers and love incoming to California from Western North Carolina.

[tamarazwinak]

Outstanding response all around. Thank you to all who checked on and helped our elders get out safely.

[eliasmowrey]

Former Pasadena/Arcadia resident sending my prayers to everyone in California. My old school in Altadena burned down 😢

[kerinhuber]

Thank you so much to all of you working to help us ❤

[loganbrown]

For those wondering why the fire hydrants went dry:
They aren't out of water exactly, like many many people were saying, they just couldnt pump it fast enough. The hydrants are supplying water again which wouldn't be possible if city was actually out of water.
The cities water primarily comes from reservoirs which are still full. The problem is that the reservoir aren't at fire hose pressure on their own. To get the water to be at a useful pressure, the water is pumped to holding tanks at a higher altitude. The water can flow down from these holding tanks and supply water to the city. These holding tanks are what ran out of water, not the reservoir.

The pumping system that keeps these tanks full was not meant to supply enough water to fight fires at this scale, and it also sounds like there were power outages which temporarily took out some of the pumps making the problem worse. No amount of water stockpiling could have stopped those hydrants from going dry.

[denisthibeault]

This is just a parade of politicians getting face time. Just incredible!

[wendymarples]

Firefighters are heading down from Canada in spite of the mango and his threats.

[Lance-ss]

Pasadena and Altadena was a beautiful place

[colinvickers]

CONGRESS NEEDS TO ACT. CALFIRE is paid well. The Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, BIA, USWFS are all paid like cheap garage. It is a disgrace. Even with their new proposal that may pass congress is laughable. Please right your congress person and ask them to increase Federal Government Wildland Firefighter Pay. They are losing their workforce. Many people quit in masses every year due to laughable pay, poor broken down facilities, equipment, and vehicles.

Wildland firefighters may to hard labor...but not the leadership on the fire crews. We are losing are workers and we are losing are leadership. Try being a leader in the wildland fire community and you will find it takes an incredible amount of skill, discipline, sacrifice, and intelligence. There is a problem and they refuse to fix it. As the workforce continues to disintegrate this will only get worse as we lose are workers, are leaders, and are support staff to better paying jobs and jobs that support their crews with appropriate funding for facilities, equipment, and other necessities to become an ACTUAL professional workforce.

Also, developers should spot building homes in high fire prone areas and selling them to naïve people. Even without global warming a fire like this was going to occur regardless. The frequency in which these fires occur is increasing. Instead of having a fire like this every 300, 200, 100 years they will occur more often in the future if temperatures continue to rise.

[munchiekins]

On Watch Duty it says there is 3% containment on the Eaton Fire. Is that not true?

[eeayquetting]

Why did they shut off the water?? It was a replay of Lahaina all over again

[Ittybittythetwofacedkitty]

Whatever happened to clearing out brush and dead wood yearly? Do they no longer do this?

[jingchunyang]

When will the power be back for Northern Pasadena?

[dr.aniasara]

I wrote to this Mayor and I never heard back.

[SDH]

You can’t rely on a municipal or government agency to protect you during a natural disasters. Citizens need to be prepared for whatever natural disasters are possible given their geography.

[Pepper]

They cut the fire departments budget by $17.6 MILLION dollars, another reason these people helped cause the carnage.

[TEPO--]

Sentencing for LOOTING during DISASTERS should be increased, as it's a form of terrorizing individuals and communities already in crisis.
There should be extremely high states for such criminals as it's their conscience, diabolical choice.
Lock them up forever....

[peterzinia]

I've been doing some thinking(uh o). Since here in the U.S you can never actually 100% own a home(the government forbids ownership of property, that's why you always have a property tax), then shouldn't the government be chipping in on insurance? So should the lender. Well the government doesn't really care if the house burns down, they are only concerned about the land not what real estate is built on it. So scratch that, but the bank sure cares about the home value.