"While water supplies from local fire hydrants are not designed to extinguish wildfires over large areas, losing supplies from fire hydrants likely impaired the effort to protect some homes and evacuation corridors."
~ Governor Gavin Newsom
Exactly. if the city (fire hydrant) water system had been re-charged from local reservoirs (there are two large ones within 30 miles of the Eaton fire), could more homes have been saved?
A local Altadena man's charred body was found next to his house, and in his hands was the water hose he was using to try to save his house.
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