Officials were warned of failing water system before Palisades fire. Fixes never happened
Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure ...
These L.A. Homeowners Installed Private Fire Hydrants. Here’s How They Fared.
Our reporter caught up with a number of people who had prepared for wildfires with built-in systems. “I’m sleeping with one ...
Lawsuit says critical water source sat dry for months before Palisades Fire
Victims of the Palisades Fire are suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for hampering firefighting efforts.
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'All the hydrants up here are dead.' Radio traffic recounts LA firefighters losing water
NPR transcribed 2,000 hours of radio communications from the LA fires. It shows hydrants going dry and first responders ...
Hilltop reservoir that could've fed Palisades hydrants was empty; Newsom orders probe
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into why the 117 million gallon hilltop reservoir above the Pacific ...
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Crews work to contain Palisades Fire as gusty winds return
In this aerial view taken from a helicopter, homes burned from the Palisade fire smolder near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood ... a firefighter comes up to a hydrant, we expect there’s ...
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'The hydrants up here are dead.' Radio traffic shows how LA firefighters lost water
On the morning of Jan. 7, a firefighter near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles observed a 10-acre brush fire along a ridgeline ... out of water in the hydrant system," he said.
When L.A. fires broke out, the 117-million gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir near Pacific Palisades was empty. Here's what we know.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an investigation into the loss of water pressure and unavailability of water from the ...
Why some fire hydrants in LA had no water to fight the fires
Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish ...