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Originally Posted by Azure
This just makes that fact that a lot of the reservoirs being empty even more ridiculous. They knew it was an issue and weren't prepared in a way that they COULD have been prepared.
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Wasn't it just 1 reservoir that was undergoing repairs that was empty?
And that's all kind of a red herring. You don't fight fires of that scale with water from hydrants in city distribution systems. Those are designed to fight smaller fires, like a few houses, a smaller industrial area, or absolute worst case, part of a neighbourhood.
The amount of water needed to fight the Palisades fire can't realistically be supplied by a municipal water system. Particularly given that basically every burnt house creates a new water demand as the pipes burst. Trying to oversize the drinking water system to match that theoretical demand would introduce a ton of other problems and be obscenely expensive. Theoretically they could have a discrete firefighting water system, but no city actually does that because of the massive cost.