Developing News: LA Fire Hydrants Run Dry

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At the rate Los Angeles is being consumed by fire there won’t be anything left of the city in a few more days. That’s the Democratic way of solving the stigma of homelessness. Now, everyone is homeless. Including a whole bunch of Hollywood hotshot celebrities. The mayor’s been missing in action, afraid to face angry citizens who learned she defunded their firefighters. The latest outrage comes from alleged Governor Gavin Newsom. He’s demanding an urgent investigation into why the hydrants ran out of water. The investigative trail’s going to lead right back to his office.

Fire Hydrants run dry

Everyone is furious that there isn’t any water in Los Angeles fire hydrants.

Despite the state’s progressive Democrat policies on divvying up water rights across the state, lax oversight of utility providers and general mismanagement, Gavin Newsom “demanded an independent investigation into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Allowing the fire hydrants to run out of water is unacceptable, Newsom declares. “From the moment firestorms erupted in Los Angeles County on Tuesday, January 7, it was clear our public infrastructure would be put under tremendous strain,” he wrote to the LADWP in a nasty letter.

Calling it “deeply troubling,” he whined that the situation “likely impaired” recovery efforts.

The ongoing reports of the loss of water pressure to some local fire hydrants during the fires and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir are deeply troubling to me and to the community,” Newsom scolds.

Water and Power pushes back that nobody could have foreseen the current situation and there’s only so much water to go around in the first place, thanks to Newsom himself.

Now, everyone is homeless. Including a whole bunch of Hollywood hotshot celebrities.

California needs answers

Newsom recognizes that “water supplies from local fire hydrants are not designed to extinguish wildfires over large areas.” Even so, losing pressure “likely impaired the effort to protect some homes and evacuation corridors.” For that, “we need answers,” he declares.

That’s why he “he has directed officials to prepare for an independent after-incident report focused on determining the causes of lost water supply and water pressure.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass admitted on January 9 “that up to 20% of the city’s hydrants were dry.” Earlier that day fire crews “had completely stopped tapping hydrants.” They ended up moving water around in 50-gallon garbage cans.

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At the rate Los Angeles is being consumed by fire there won’t be anything left of the city in a few more days.

The LADWP was initially pumping aqueducts and groundwater into the system, but demand was so high that there wasn’t enough to refill three 1-million gallon tanks in the hilly Pacific Palisades that help pressurize hydrants.” They usually have a reservoir there, but it’s currently drained for cleaning.

Once all the fires are put out, stopping the looting is the next highest priority. The national guard has already been deployed to stop the already reported rampant theft. Another disturbing report relates to the part of the blaze burning in the West Hollywood Hills area.

It seems that the Kenneth Fire was intentionally started by a homeless man on a bicycle with a blowtorch. He’s booked on suspicion of arson but cops are afraid to charge him with it. He was caught red handed by vigilantes but there’s not enough evidence to pin an arson rap on him. They’ll be letting him go soon because he’s only being held on a parole violation.

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