AND CASSIE, IRONICALLY, NEW ORLEANS FIREFIGHTERS ARE LOOKING INTO WHAT SPARKED A FIRE AT THE SEWAGE AND WATER BOARD FACILITY TODAY ON BROAD STREET. IT BROKE OUT AROUND 10:00 THIS MORNING RIGHT ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A group of residents impacted by the Palisades Fire is suing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, alleging the city and its agency was unprepared. "The Palisades ...

“We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh Fairfield-Smith, fire management officer for Eagle Valley Wildland. As the fires burned around Los Angeles County, California, in January, ...

Lawsuit accuses LADWP of mismanaging water supplies during Palisades Fire Santa Ynez Reservoir empty since February 2024, lawsuit claims cost-cutting delays Governor Newsom calls for investigation ...

Shutting off water in adjacent areas, the DWP officials ultimately decided, would endanger those neighborhoods and undermine efforts to stanch the fire on its expanding edges, said Anselmo Collins ...

People in the Palisades and Eaton fire evacuation areas should use bottled water and refrain from using their tap water until further notice. The unsafe water alert and "Do Not Drink" notices ...

Firefighters in California are battling the historic fires from the sky using a variety of effective and specialized aircraft that dump water and fire retardants over Los Angeles. The state’s ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Los Angeles' water chief reportedly knew about an empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months before the deadly wildfires now spreading across the city that have left ...

Victims of the Palisades Fire accused the Los Angeles utility that oversees water delivery of being woefully unprepared to battle the intense inferno that has devastated their ritzy neighborhood ...

claimed LADWP delayed repair work on the water resource to cut costs. "Had the LADWP acted responsibly, the damage caused by the Palisades Fire could have been greatly reduced," the complaint said.

As crews have fought the fast-spreading fires across the Los Angeles area, they have repeatedly been hampered by low water pressure and fire hydrants that have gone dry. These problems have ...

That fire took six weeks to contain. Issues have surfaced in Los Angeles, raising additional concerns for metropolitan areas about the resiliency of water distribution infrastructure, hydrant ...