Re: LA Fires Reply #15 – January 13, 2025, 12:54:19 pm Quote from: Lods – on January 13, 2025, 11:09:00 amNot sure how the insurance companies are going to meet their obligations.Multi-million dollar properties going up in flames.There was probably a reluctance to cover fires by some of these companies anyway.End result...Companies will collapse.People won't get their payouts.Rebuilding will be difficult, if not impossible.There may be some government assistance....but it's doubtful it will cover costs.The fires, and the refusal of insurance companies to insure many properties, will have ramifications for folk living in bushfire areas here ... Quote Selected
Re: LA Fires Reply #16 – January 13, 2025, 01:01:29 pm QuoteJanisse Quiñones, chief executive officer and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power ... said firefighters battling the blaze in the Palisades created four times the normal demand in the area for 15 straight hours. Three separate storage tanks of roughly one million gallons of water each support fire hydrants in the area. These tanks sporadically ran dry Tuesday night and Wednesday morning leading the pressure in fire hydrants to drop. Quiñones said 20% of hydrants used to fight the Palisades fire ran dry on Wednesday."We’re fighting a wildfire with urban water systems and that is really challenging. This is an unprecedented event.” Quote Selected 1 Likes