LA water chief 'was aware of broken hydrants' months before fires
The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, ...
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Fact-check: Los Angeles fires fuel falsehoods, including by Trump about water management
President-elect Donald Trump and some social media users and pundits blamed Los Angeles’ deadly fires on California Gov. Gavin Newsom, saying the Democrat’s environmental policies enabled the blazes’ ...
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Newsom orders investigation into loss of water pressure at fire hydrants
California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered an investigation into loss of water pressure at fire hydrants. Read more.
Biden claim about empty hydrants undermined by LA water utility's lack of common wildfire safety protocol
President Biden said Thursday that empty fire hydrants in the Los Angeles area were the result of an intentional power ...
Newsom orders investigation of Los Angeles fire hydrant failures
Firefighters reported being unable to access water from hydrants as they defended homes and businesses in Pacific Palisades.
Gavin Newsom Launches Probe Into Waterless L.A. Fire Hydrants
Gavin Newsom has ordered a probe into why Los Angeles’ fire hydrants ran out of water amid a spate of wildfires that have ...
Charlie Kirk: L.A. Should Lose 2028 Olympics Over Wildfire Response
Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk thinks Los Angeles should lose its rights to the 2028 Olympic Games. The Turning Point ...
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No ‘water system in the world’ could have handled the LA fires. How the region could have minimized the damage
Even as flames in Southern California continued to carve a destructive path on Friday and fire officials sought to assess the damage and determine how the fires began, ...
Biden repeats false explanation of dry hydrants after Newsom complains of ‘lies’ blaming him for LA fire catastrophe
Biden, 82, claimed for a second day Friday that electrical providers cut off power to the pumps that flow water to fire ...
On the Ground for ‘Apocalyptic’ LA Wildfires: 5 TV Reporters Talk Covering Unprecedented Level of Destruction
Reporters from NBC News, CBS, ABC, Fox News and NewsNation tell TheWrap about the historic damage Los Angeles wildfires have ...
Why fire hydrants ran dry as wildfires tore through Los Angeles
Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also ...
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High Winds Return as Firefighters Struggle to Contain L.A. Fires: Updates
With the fires still burning out of control, it’s currently unknown how many structures have been destroyed as a result of ...