Trump’s claims about California water and L.A. fires are inaccurate and misleading, experts say
Southern California reservoirs are near full, and hydrant problems are unrelated to the Delta and fish, they note ...
Waste Watch: Highest paid Los Angeles employees ridiculed during fires
Fires continue to burn across Southern California. With containment slowly building, so does the concern of how preparation ...
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LA Utility’s CEO Once Touted Commitment To Energy Transition And ‘Equity.’ Now Her Dept Is Being Sued.
Janisse Quiñones, the CEO and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), focused extensively on ...
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California wildfires: How and why did fire hydrants run dry across Los Angeles?
“We had a tremendous demand on our system in the Palisades,” Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said at a Wednesday briefing. “We pushed the system to the ...
How Could This Happen? Answering Frequently Asked Questions About the L.A. Wildfire Disaster
As wildfires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area, many still have unanswered questions about how the deadly blazes broke ...
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LA fires damage power, sewer and water infrastructure
AccuWeather says total costs could range between $250 billion and $275 billion, including rebuilding and economic loss, ...
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L.A. Firefighters Brace For Return of Dangerous High Winds
The winds aren’t expected to be as extreme as they were a week ago, but will still be extremely dangerous. According to ...
Winds forecast to be ‘as bad as it gets’ in Los Angeles as fire breaks out near San Diego
The LA wildfires now pose a threat to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games as the fires edge ever closer to some sporting venues. These include venues such as the Riviera Golf Club, which will host 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 ...
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The Los Angeles fires are a human disaster long in the making
WireImage What caused the dry fire hydrants? The new CEO of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Janisse Quiñones, told reporters on Wednesday that there was just too much demand on the ...
Why fire hydrants were never going to be enough to combat L.A.’s fires
Public figures have questioned L.A.’s ‘dry’ fire hydrants, but experts say the hydrant system wasn’t designed for this ...
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Newsom calls for investigation into water supply after tanks ‘went dry’ during wildfire
In the letter addressed to LADWP Chief Executive Officer and Chief Engineer Janisse Quiñones and L.A. County Public Works Director Mark Pestrella, Newsom wrote, “The ongoing reports of loss of ...