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LA's coastal there's a limitless supply of saltwater offshore

Yeah, that sucks. I pray that the firefighters can do their job safely despite the incompetence of the leadership

Certainly there is a way to pump ocean water in?

Water? How do California just not have enough water??

My county fire district has just sent down a water tender.

Also, if fire melted the plastic water pipes that supply water, and those areas backflush into the rest of the system, the water can be extremely toxic as a result - one of the northern Cali fires discovered this a few years back.

Stupid question. Can they not pump water from the ocean.

Wild. Hopeful for all this affected.

California or Canada?

What the H do you mean "becoming"!!?? Did you just arrive on earth?

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I feel like this is inevitable. Some places in the world have to go without clean water for short periods of time. LA is almost (or is?) a desert. And climate change makes all the problems worse. But no leaders will prioritize working to fight and prepare for climate change.

What a scary statistic - so scary. Lifting up LA. Stay safe!

In 1993, I was a FF during the Laguna Beach fire. I struggled to open a fire hydrant only to follow and a vaccum. As soon as I wrestled the cap off, it began sucking air into the system. There's no water system in the world that is capable of keeping up with this kind of demand.

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They’re hooked up to the White House’s water supply so it’s Biden’s fault

Brilliant idea. I don't think you've thought it through, but it's brilliant. Corrosive water running through a completely separate water network just for fires. Did I mention it's corrosive? What are you going to make the pipes out of?

Some people say there is no water, some people say that the water is there but there is no pressure. For now lets put out the fire and find the truth and solution.

Thank you for all you do to assist Ukraine at this critical time.we can't thank you more but accept my appreciate , you guys are doing a lot to show the world how evil Russia are,a state compromise of terrorist, I'm Ukrainian and my English isn't good

YIKES!

Gosh, so so tragic. Anywhere in the world, it's heartbreaking to hear how people's lives and communities are so suddenly disrupted.

I hadn’t read your other posts, so I missed the snark. ;)

You do realize that NO community would have enough water pressure to fight this many blazes at once!

It is possible to overdraw a main line. It does not matter how much water is in a reservoir if you can’t get it to the hydrants. Most city main lines are “only” four inch so at 200 psi there’s “only” about 700 GPM. CalFire’s spec is 200 GPM per hydrant

Global warming is real

Late capitalism going well I see

Apocalypse. My god. I just cannot imagine what they are going through there. Horror.

Did you read the article? It merely states that fighting the fire has put a massive strain on the water system. It seems like perfectly fine journalism to me, hardly "slurring" the city

This is very poor journalism. No: there's plenty of water to put out fires. We're next to an ocean! And the "boil water" order is ONLY in the Pacific Palisades area. Meanwhile valiant firefighters including from Canada have worked to knock back the other fires. Report on that, NPR.

Don’t you have to put out hit pieces on tictok creators?

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If only, we would put our resources into Manipulating the weather. So, it can rain.. instead, of the newest War Machine.

😂 We told him to shove it.

Firefighters & the entire team does an extraordinary job under horrendous conditions! I applaud everyone, well except Mayor Karen Bass. What the hell is she doing attending an inauguration in Ghana? Taxpayers U R paying 4 this while she cuts LAFD funding by $17.6 M this year. WTF is wrong with her?

Want more water available? Stop growing almonds. 1 nut takes 1 gallon of water to grow. 2,500 square miles are used to grow almonds. Or 960 million gallons of water for 1 sq mi of almond trees.

Please explain why boiling ash-laden water will make it anything other than hot ash-laden water?

Climate change and dry weather and wind makes it worse, but the cause of this kind of blaze and its location suggests arson.

I’m surprised James Woods couldn’t save his uninsured house by peeing on it. Just sayin.

Can't they use planes?

NPR joke of a rpt..firefighters on the scenes confirmed hydrants have water but using all the hydrants in the county at the same is affecting water pressure..I believe the firefighters fighting the fires over some water plant hack sharing this reporters chaos 4 clicks agenda..NPR has no credibility

People are saying there's a giant water faucet you could turn on.

I don't think boiling is going to get rid of the ash

My brain cannot comprehend this disaster.

When entire neighborhoods are up in flames and all hydrants are running full blast, yeah, hydrants gonna go dry.

Fuck off with your bullshit.

LA fires and cancelled home insurance policies: If the wildfires were that predictable, they are not a Force Majeure situation. Instead, there should have been clear warnings and preparations. What reports and forecasts were the insurance cancellations based on?

Why does “fed ash to the water supply sound” like a malicious decision. Like yeah, they probably, but why? Surely there’s not ill-intentions

Hello, expert fire understander James Woods here, and let me tell you how you're wrong. I learned about fire when I took up freebasing crack (in a movie) and had to use fire to heat up the crack for smoking, as a crack smoker does. This taught me how easy fire is to put out, you turn on the sink and

And they are in elevation.

This one?

Yes !!! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Maybe if we stop threatening to invade them, they might.

who knows with his addled brain!

😂 No.

The magons are blaming the local government. They didn’t appreciate when I pointed out that it “could” be a supply and demand issue 😂🤦‍♀️

omg

They don't drop water on houses from helicopters, they need hoses and hydrants to do that. The helicopters can't fly in the 70mph winds or in the smoke. They can take it out of people's swimming pools and just about every house there has ones. My husband works for a helicopter firefighting team.

Water is real.

This has absolutely nothing to do with ground water levels. The fire hydrant system isn't run off of ground water lol, it's run off the municipal infrastructure which has always gotten most of its water from lake reservoirs, which are actually very full right now.

Normally this wouldn't be an issue because there's about 3 million gallons of water in local storage tanks earmarked specifically for firefighting, but firefighters have used up that supply.

DESPERATION: Firefighter uses a traffic cone to retrieve water from a puddle as LA runs out of water.

Maybe the soon to be 51st can funnel some water. And the damn Dems. What did they cause now. (Joking)

The billioners will hoard all the wealth either we let them or not. For now we have no solution for that except to tax them. Unfortunetly we don't succeed this time to have a Government by the people and for the people so that's on hold for now.

Ugh come on NPR. It is a water pressure problem, not a lack of water.

Kardashians, and many other millionaires, have green and irrigated lawns

Wait. How will AI ever work if we waste all our water on fires?

No way! It’s an urban firestorm. Shut the fuck up NPR.

No. It’s because they didn’t turn the giant faucet. Our next president says so. www.c-span.org/clip/campaig...

Insurance companies cut fire insurance in LA a few weeks ago because many of these corrupt insurance companies have access to super computers & government data that are able to forecast disasters many weeks ahead of the general public. Every aspect of American life corrupted is by evil & evil.

Free market capitalism. The market will provide🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤮

There is no no water in the coastal mountains of California. That's why normally, nobody would build a bunch of houses there. This is disaster is a result of human arrogance.

She looks familiar

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Next up you're going to post how long Nestlé has been stealing water from CA, right?

You all are a joke. Water has nothing to do with this fire you morons!

The Pasadena Fire Chief told PBS Newshour that this fire and wind situation is so bad that, even if there was an unlimited water supply, they could not contain these fires until the winds die down.

Yes for sure we know that, we also know how hard it is to have everybody on the same page to find solution.

Yep have designed several water systems and usually is a peak fire flow for something like 2 hours. Different scenarios have to be considered but just to give you an idea of the time frames involved.

I'm so angry at Donald Trump! 😡

When is Canada going to open that giant faucet? /snark

How can they tackle a blazing inferno that is a fire?

Water is always a problem in SoCal.

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I don’t usually hear Egypt as an example, but people often reference Israel when talking about Desal. And Israel reduced per person water consumption by half of what Californians use and recycled 100% of their wastewater before moving to Desal. It was their last resort.

Desal is the most expensive and most climate impacting water resource. Even worse than current imports. Wastewater recycling and stormwater capture have been proven to be more cost effective, have a lower carbon footprint and can meet our demand.

The US infrastructure has been described as 3rd world decay and dysfunction. Not having a water supply in a major metropolitan city during a massive fire is just another example of just how bad things have deteriorated in the US…

There is no endless supply of water anywhere west of Texas.

The water crisis is not going to get better either

Wasn’t there an old old quote about building houses on sand?

My initial reply Time to write ordinances about water use and #of homes/ that the source can service. Cut off Las Vegas use, cut off desert use.

Why aren’t the aerial pilots grabbing water from the ocean?

If only they lived by the ocean.

"Meanwhile investment funds and insurers like Manulife Financial Corp, TIAA, and even Harvard’s endowment profit from overpumping California’s diminishing groundwater, drying up...wells that people rely on across the state." from @cplusc.bsky.social climateandcommunity.org/research/ach...

Some of the shortage is attributed to people who fled their homes and left hoses running in an effort to soak their property.