As fires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, some firefighters battling the Palisades fire reported on internal radio systems that hydrants in Pacific Palisades were coming up dry.
“The hydrants are down,” said one firefighter.
“Water supply just dropped,” said another.
L.A. developer Rick Caruso, who owns Palisades Village in the heart of the Westside neighborhood, told The Times he was receiving similar reports from his staff at the shopping center.
“There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” Caruso said. “The firefighters are there [in the neighborhood], and there’s nothing they can do — we’ve got neighborhoods burning, homes burning, and businesses burning. … It should never happen.”
DEI at the firehouse should include ample water. And in the woods it should include controlled burns. Controlled burns prevent big fires and water puts fires out. DEI should also include top people with brains and proper training, but apparently that was not obvious. I do not enjoy writing stuff like this but I also hate watching California burn. All organizations, including government, decline rapidly when there are so many bad employees they push out the good ones. When the bad employees are at the top, this happens very quickly and you end up with high crime, craziness, and preventable fires like this. ABN
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