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The Guardian - US
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Cecilia Nowell

After ‘tremendous demand’, water tanks used for fighting LA wildfires ran dry early

Orange-and-black image of firefighter spraying water on house
The Eaton fire in Pasadena, California, on 8 January 2025. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

As firefighters battled three wildfires raging across Los Angeles in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the water tanks supplying Pacific Palisades – where the largest of the fires broke out – ran dry.

Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer and CEO of the Los Angeles department of water and power, told reporters that by 3am Wednesday, the three 1m-gallon tanks serving the Palisades had been depleted.

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