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How years of corruption and mismanagement led to LA running out of water in the middle of wildfire
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2:10Now PlayingAs Los Angeles firefighters faced down the most destructive blaze in the city’s history, they ran out of water. NY Post reporter Jared Downing shares this story.
“The hydrants are down,” a firefighter said over the radio, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Another chipped in: “Water supply just dropped.”
Fire crews were forced to watch as entire blocks of the Pacific Palisades — one of the most scenic and celeb-packed neighborhoods in LA — were incinerated in a matter of hours late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
“There’s no water in the fire hydrants,” Rick Caruso, who owns the Palisades Village mall in the heart of the devastated area, fumed to local media. “The firefighters are there, and there’s nothing they can do — we’ve got neighborhoods burning, homes burning, and businesses burning. … It should never happen.”
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