Fire hydrants that don't have water? That's nothing new. And California did something about it.
And then they just forgot about it.
The water pressure also failed during the 1961 Bel Air and Topanga Fires. In the years after, LAFD and DWP planned a number of improvements, for those specific areas, to make sure that never happened again. One of those improvements was the construction of the Santa Ynez… pic.twitter.com/LQCrSZaw5H