Fire hydrants run dry as unprecedented California wildfires ravage Los Angeles: 'We pushed the system to the extreme'
Though wildfires have always happened, warming global temperatures are making them more frequent and severe. For instance, scientists calculated last year that our overheating planet has contributed to a 172% increase in areas burned by wildfires in California since the 1970s.
It’s a headline no one would want to see: Fire hydrants being used to fight the Palisades Fire were running dry. The ...
As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...
Los Angeles officials said a "tremendous" demand — four times normal levels — during the Palisades fire caused some hydrants ...
President Joe Biden repeatedly told speakers to “fire away!” during a White House briefing on the still raging Los Angeles ...
Three large water tanks in the Pacific Palisades area ran out by early Wednesday morning, officials said, reducing water ...
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) officials raked in enormous taxpayer-funded paychecks before its fire ...
I mean those hydrants are typical for two or three fires — maybe one fire and you have something of this scale, but again ...
Tens of thousands were evacuated as more than 5,000 acres burned in the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood ...
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