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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Not the main cause, but I read a story today that some of the fire departments literally ran out of water. Like nothing coming out of the hydrants in some areas.
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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
It's been years and years of drought, and most of the lakes in the state are dry. This is not surprising.
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It's not so much the amount of water that was an issue but moreso the design of the system. The water system isn't designed to feed such a massive fire fighting effort for an extended period of time and because of that the system was strained and couldn't maintain adequate pressure to move water up the hill to the higher elevation hydrants which were the ones that ran dry. In these types of fire fighting efforts they usually rely much more on air efforts instead of ground efforts but the helicopters and bombers were largely grounded on Tuesday and Wednesday because of the winds and smoke.