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| LA's $750k-a-year water boss struggles to explain why fire hydrants ran dry in bumbling video about inferno response | ||
| 2025-01-10 | ||
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Los Angeles' water boss who makes $750,000 a year couldn't quite explain why fire hydrants have run dry during the disastrous wildfires in a bumbling video. During a press conference Wednesday, Janisse Quiñones, the newly appointed chief executive officer and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said all water storage tanks in the Pacific Palisades area 'went dry' as flames continue to rage on.
Quiñones, who previously worked for PG&E prior to being appointed in May,
'Those tanks help with the pressure on the fire hydrants in the hills of Palisades, and because we were pushing so much water in our trunk line, and so much water was being used before it can get to the tanks - we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough,' she explained. 'So the consumption of water was faster than we can provide water in our trunk line,' she continued, adding that there is water in the truck line, but it 'cannot get up the hill because we cannot fill the tanks fast enough.' After someone asked her for the number of hydrants that cannot get water because of these issues, Quiñones started to stumble on her words. 'We, um, we were trying to keep water at all altitudes on the Palisades, and I think about three in the morning, that's when - uh - the hydrants went dry above the Brentwood area.' | ||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #25 The missing link .... Thank you, sir! My google fu is weak |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-01-10 22:01 |
| #24 Three million gallons. Pish. The 117 million gallon tank was out of service for an unknown time due to a tear in the liner. |
| Posted by: KBK 2025-01-10 18:20 |
| #23 Apparently 1 of the 2 planes scooped a drone and is out of action at the moment. Me the other day: The single best thing the can do now is ease travel restrictions for emergency and relief traffic. Newsome: ja ja ja ja ja suck it. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-10 16:04 |
| #22 In other news, I don't have a link The missing link .... |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-10 15:37 |
| #21 Scooper planes were dropping seawater Cool planes! Once the wind died down, the air assets could go to work. But how can you drop a thousand gallons of chloride and microplastics without filing an Environmental Impact Statement? It may be a life or death situation, but we cannot have our bureaucrats sitting around with nothing to do. In other news, I don't have a link, but I saw a report that Oregon had sent firefighters and equipment to help out, but the Cali Dept. of Transportation was holding up the show by insisting the trucks be inspected before they would let them into the state. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-01-10 15:02 |
| #20 #1, Skidmark, who authorized Biden to tell the truth? Maybe he thought the need to cut off power was a good excuse for having no water for the fire hydrants but it's not. Those power lines should have been buried over a hundred years ago. If you have to cut off electricity when Santa Ana winds blow, then you will not have electricity at a time when it is absolutely critical that you do. Newsom knows that and did nothing about it so he must bear responsibility for this tragedy. California is a big, highly complex enterprise. You can't just sit back, sip wine, put Dipity-Do in your hair and run for president if you want to avoid major disasters. You can't just put it on auto-pilot. If you're not paying attention, things like fire hydrants running dry during a fire will happen. It's like talking on a cell phone while driving a car. You need to be serious, responsible, realistic and pro-active. Newsom isn't. Newsom has prioritized all the wrong things during his time in office. He's working to keep Trump from deporting illegal aliens. He's making sure illegal aliens are registered to vote and getting health care at the taxpayers' expense. He squanders billions of dollars on housing for hobos and high speed rail. But he will not bury power lines. There is no forest management. There are no fire breaks or green belts to minimize the impact of fires when they start, which they always will. He won't spend a dime to thin the brush in the canyons where the fires start. He will not incarcerate the hobos who camp in that brush and start fires to cook their beans. Instead of doing an honest day's work, he'd rather blame climate change for all the problems that result from his incompetence and lack of integrity. He pays attention to all the wrong things like being woke, hip, good looking and DEI. Meanwhile the state is going to hell. Trump is right. Newsom should resign in disgrace. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2025-01-10 13:56 |
| #19 spreading salt water around the ground can contaminate it. The pictures I've seen it appears you couldn't contaminate it much more other than dropping nuclear waste on it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-10 13:54 |
| #18 Scooper planes were dropping seawater Somebody will complain about that for damaging the golf courses, although those are mostly located north of the Santa Monica range. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-01-10 11:14 |
| #17 PG&E says it all! |
| Posted by: RJ45ACP 2025-01-10 10:57 |
| #16 Leaked memo reveals LA Mayor Karen Bass demanded her fire department cut an extra $49 million just ONE WEEK before wildfires broke out |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-10 10:53 |
| #15 Los Angeles' water boss who makes $750,000 a year couldn't quite explain why fire hydrants have run dry DEI appointment? POTUS only makes $400K/or +50K for expenses. This does not count Bidet's administration. CF city and CF state. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2025-01-10 10:44 |
| #14 ^ Scooper planes were dropping seawater |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-01-10 10:17 |
| #13 Re #7: There are lots of good reasons NOT to use sea water for firefighting. Sea water is corrosive, so pipes and fittings would need to be hardened against it. Also, spreading salt water around the ground can contaminate it. Ships can use seawater for firefighting because the firefighting pipes are separate. |
| Posted by: Rambler 2025-01-10 10:15 |
| #12 From what I've heard, she wasn't elected mayor until after midnight IYKWIM. Getting bene trips to Africa as celebrity ambassador, I believe it. And absolutely pulling a Kathleen Sebelius, as predicted. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-10 10:13 |
| #11 Next Time, L.A., Don't Elect a Commie Who Hates You. Here's How! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2025-01-10 09:40 |
| #10 There's an antisemitic conspiracy theory about how a single family bought up all the water bearing land in LA. It's bullshit, like all antisemitic conspiracy theories. |
| Posted by: Angulet Glomoper3773 2025-01-10 09:22 |
| #9 #4 they're getting around to it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-01-10 08:59 |
| #8 If you ever wonder why CAL is so hosed? There are Media reports indicating LA Mayor is or was in Africa when the LA area fires were in full bloom. LA Mayor Bass was a frequent traveler, to Communist Cuba. There are reports she trained alongside future members of M19 and the Weather Underground, two domestic terror groups, in terrorist tactics. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-10 08:50 |
| #7 Hydrants are just valves that tap into the existing potable water system. A full seawater system would require separate piping everywhere. You could design a system that could be connected and isolated for emergency use with seawater and/or untreated water use. Setting that up would require a lot of planning, technical competence and political will that isn’t available in the location of the disaster. It is not an alteration that can’t be done on the fly. Spending money on a firefighting project in LA could only happen if 90% of the money could be syphoned off through corruption. Look for that to be proposed by Newsom in the aftermath. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-01-10 08:17 |
| #6 Wonder why the CAL DOT decided 60 LA Fire Trucks needed immediate inspection and at a location 400 miles away? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-10 06:48 |
| #5 This 'tard came from PG&E. Figures. Hmmmm |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-01-10 05:41 |
| #4 Given, LA is next to Ocean. Why hasn't it already installed piping to use seawater instead of mainly using fresh/ treated Colorado River water to fight fires? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-01-10 05:27 |
| #3 #2 Let me guess - without clicking the link: racism & sexism cards. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2025-01-10 02:09 |
| #2 LA mayor Karen Bass breaks silence on growing calls for her to resign over shocking fire mismanagement RETRO Maui's chief of emergency management resigns amid criticism |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-10 02:05 |
| #1 Biden lets slip real reason LA fire hydrants were dry when flames began as Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass cling to their jobs |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-10 01:44 |