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LA water chief knew about empty reservoir, broken hydrants months before fires: Report
The Daily Mail reports the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones was hired ... top executive role at electric company PG&E. The company previously went bankrupt ...
LA's $750k-a-year water boss struggles to explain why fire hydrants ran dry in bumbling video about inferno response
Janisse Quiñones, chief executive officer and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, couldn't quite explain why fire hydrants have run dry in bumbling video.
Engineering News-Record27d
Los Angeles Wildfires Rage on, Destroying Structures and Displacing Residents
Janisse Quiñones, CEO and chief engineer of ... The department has 118 crews working on restoration, with power utility PG&E supporting the effort. The priority is addressing downed wires ...
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LA wildfire updates as ‘arsonist’ arrested on suspicion of starting California wildfires
On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse ... company PG&E, which went bankrupt ...
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Gavin Newsom cut fire budget by $100 million last year
On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse ... company PG&E, which went bankrupt ...
justthenews27d
Years before LA inferno, California’s fire and water management policies raised fears of catastrophe
Janisse Quiñones, chief executive and chief engineer of the ... “The failure of regulators to aggressively oversee and punish the reckless and deadly behavior of companies like PG&E cannot be ...
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 ...
New York Post17d
Los Angeles water chief Janisse Quinones given police security detail amid ‘threats’ against her, employees
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s CEO Janisse Quinones now has a 24/7 LAPD detail in response to the threats, the sources said. One LAPD source cited the recent shooting in New York of ...
El Nuevo Día24d
Puerto Rican Janisse Quiñones, head of the Los Angeles Water Department, is in the midst of the crisis caused by the fires
According to California authorities, at least 11 people have died and 180,000 have been forced to evacuate areas of Los Angeles. (Ethan Swope) ...