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Hydrants have failed during other fire disasters, including the massive 2023 wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, said Andrew Whelton, engineering professor at Purdue University.
California wildfires: How and why did fire hydrants run dry across Los Angeles? Josh Marcus. January 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM. ... chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department, said Thursday.
California firefighters are running out of water while battling the rapidly growing fires in Los Angeles — with emergency responders reporting bone-dry fire hydrants across the region.
A fire hydrant burns in the Eaton fire in Los Angeles on January 8. JOSH EDELSON / AFP Some fire hydrants ran dry in LA due to enormous water demand and infrastructure problems.
The fires began on Jan. 7 in northern Los Angeles County during one of the strongest Santa Ana wind events to ... where water pressure for fire hydrants is fed by three water tanks containing 1 ...
When fire hydrants ran dry, the L.A. Department of Water and Power struggled to get water where needed. The utility's operations chief explains the decisions as the fire spread.
Janisse Quiñones, head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said the ferocity of the fire made the demand for water four times greater than “we’ve ever seen in the system.” Hydrants are designed for fighting fires at one or two houses at a time, not hundreds, Quiñones said, and refilling the tanks also requires asking fire ...
L.A. City Council members have called on the Department of Water and Power to examine why fire hydrants lost water pressure in last week's epic firefight, and why a reservoir was offline.