Los Angeles reservoirs filled before blazes, except for one needing repairs | Fact check
Except for a reservoir with a damaged cover that had to be drained, Los Angeles had kept its reservoirs filled before the ...
Los Angeles Daily News29d
Los Angeles fires highlight need for effective DWP oversight from the Office of Public Accountability
In the aftermath of the Los Angeles ... to the official ballot argument in favor of establishing the office, it is designed to “increase the LA Department of Water and Power’s accountability ...
University of Georgia Wire23d
Power lines and wildfires: Experts say communities can be better protected, at a high cost
The ignition site was originally identified by LAFD arson investigators ... It is unclear whether the tower is the same one Galicia saw catch fire. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which ...
ABC727d
Victims of Palisades Fire sue LADWP over water supply issues
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A group of residents impacted ... unavailability of water supplies from the reservoir. A former LADWP official told ABC News that access to the reservoir may have helped ...
Los Angeles Times19d
This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came
After flames leveled nearly 500 homes in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had a reckoning ... according to an email by a DWP regulatory affairs official summarizing the call.
New York Post26d
Victims sue Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over Palisades Fire
Victims of the Palisades Fire accused the Los Angeles utility that oversees ... The legal action against the city’s Department of Water and Power filed Monday in state court claimed the ...
Los Angeles Times25d
Inside L.A.’s desperate battle for water as the Palisades fire exploded
Seventeen miles east in downtown L.A., dozens of officials huddled around computers over a long conference room table in the Los Angeles ... water official, agreed with the DWP’s decision ...
The Desert Sun23d
Power lines and wildfires: Experts say communities can be better protected, at a high cost
The ignition site was originally identified by ... the tower is the same one Galicia saw catch fire. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which serves communities impacted by the Palisades ...
Hindustan Times27d
California wildfires highlights: Santa Ana winds pick up speed; New fire erupts in Ventura County
The Los Angeles ... may ask LADWP to de-energize power lines as a preventative measure, to help prevent wildfires and protect communities,” the department said on its website.
L.A. Fires: Progress in Southern California containment efforts as winds weaken
Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed more than two dozen people. Weaker winds enabled firefighters to make inroads ...