Critics say Los Angeles didn’t have enough water to fight devastating wildfires, but the truth is more complicated.

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    17 hours ago

    I was able to talk with an engineer that managed the water supply for a large city that underwent a fairly substantial evacuation due to a wildlife.

    It was really interesting because he was saying how he had to sleep in his office to be on call and able to manage things fast enough. They had to shut down the water supply to specific portions of the city so that all of the water was available to the high risk areas and basically just move the water around as the firefighters told him where the fire was moving to and which areas needed it most.

    (Edit: just for clarification this was not for the LA fires this was for a fire years ago)