[burmanm]

Seriously? The fires started in the area of Pacific Palisades that has altitude of hundreds of meters above sea level with few kilometers of distance.

In which world can such pump work? Are those firetrucks embedded with gravity defying technology?

Perhaps a slight reading of how water pumps work (with even elementary physics classes) would be a nice starting point for these silly accusations.

[lupusreal]

Trucks can drive up hills, can't they? If they have no water, the ferrying water up the hills with trucks is better than no water.

[llamaimperative]

You think they said "fire hydrants are empty, guess we'll just wait for it to burn out?"

> Water pressure in the system was lost due to unprecedented and extreme water demand to fight the wildfire without aerial support. This impacted our ability to refill the three water tanks supplying the Palisades causing the loss of suction pressure. This impacted 20 percent of the hydrants in the area, mostly in the higher elevations. As soon as LADWP identified the risk of losing water in the tanks and water pressure in the system, we immediately deployed potable water tankers to sustain support for firefighting efforts.

https://www.ladwpnews.com/pacific-palisades-fire-correcting-...

[XorNot]

Why look anything up when you can "just ask questions?!" (/sarcasm obviously)

[sbuttgereit]

You do know that structures right on the seashore have been burned in the Palisades Fire?

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/carbon-beach-palisades-fir...

Whether or not the fire started there, or even if any amount of water would have helped, the idea that the fire was localized far away from the ocean isn't universally true. Much of the fire was/is far away from the ocean... some areas of that fire were right at the shore.