You have to see this to believe it

Top image is "before."  You should be able to see a bigger image by clicking on it.  Virtually every home has been destroyed.  This area is NOT an anomaly, but is typical of dozens of neighborhoods.

Now: Democrats--specifically Newscum and the communist mayor of LA, Karen Bass--will claim "Dis was an unprecedented set of conditions that could not have been anticipated or defended."  And the Democrat elites in the Dem Media will eagerly parrot this.  They want you to believe nothing could have minimized the damage.  They won't SAY "We nevah had winds off the desert like this befo'!"

Of course that's a brazen, outrageous lie.  Those winds are a normal even every year--so routine that they were named decades ago.

"Well no one could possibly have foreseen that the fires--likely started by Global Warming, or lightning--would have ignited brush in the canyons!"

That's another brazen, outrageous lie:  Since the Democrats gained total control of the state gruberment, and they suck up to radical enviros, the state has not only stopped clearing brush, they've banned EVERY utility and community from doing that.  As a result, brush has built up everywhere, piling up thousands of tons of extremely flammable fuel for the inevitable fire. 

Now lets look at the claim from residents of Pacific Palisades that firefighters said some fire hydrants didn't have water.  Dem regime defenders sneered that that wasn't true, but of course it was.  As in all things, the Democrats will lie to dodge blame.  

Maybe the Democrat-fellating LA Times can help clear things up:

A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of commission when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby, the Los Angeles Times found.

Officials said that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed since last February for repairs to its cover, leaving the 117-million-gallon reservoir empty in the heart of the Palisades for nearly a year.

Of course national networks like NBC changed "had been closed since last February" to simply "was off-line," carefully obscuring the facts.  Here's how the Dem-fellating NY Times put it:

An important reservoir that helps supply water in Pacific Palisades was offline at the time the fires began, officials said Friday, and that shutdown may have contributed to firefighters losing water so early in their fight against the blaze.

The Santa Ynez Reservoir is within the Palisades and can hold millions of gallons of water. Records show it was recently set to undergo maintenance to the reservoir’s cover.

How much water could it hold, eh?  "Millions" could be two million, so not a big loss.  But losing 117 million gallons is a huge deal.  And what does "offline" actually mean?  It was totally drained.  And no one at the DWP was a bit concerned.

See, NBC and the NY Times--like all the alphabet nets and Mainstream Media--protect Democrats and their pet policies at all costs.  And what policy, you ask?  You'll see.

A rep for the city’s Department of Water and Power said the loss of the reservoir’s supply likely added to the devastating pressure issues, but that they had to repair the cover "to comply with regulations."

A former DWP official said the full reservoir might have helped early in fighting the fire but it would not have been enough to change the outcome.

"It could have made some difference in supporting the pressure loss early on, but it would not have lasted the whole fire," Martin Adams, who recently retired after 40 years of working at LADWP, most recently as General Manager, told ABC News.

Gosh, what's that smell?  Oh yeah: pure horseshit.  Let me show ya why:

Before the reservoir was built, the entire hilltop water storage for Pacific Palisades consisted of three million-gallon tanks.  Decades ago experts warned that more cisterns were needed, both for drinking water and firefighting., so after years of dithering, the vaunted DWP finally build the new, far-larger reservoir.

Now: The three million-gallon tanks quickly ran dry.  But had the big new reservoir been full, the city would have had 40 times more hilltop water available.  For retired DWP General Manager Martin Adams to claim 'It MIGHT have helped early but wouldn't have made any difference in the outcome' is pure horseshit.  I suspect Adams is covering some incompetence.

And you'd think the damn HEAD of the DWP--female, salary $750,000 a year--would consider the loss of a 117-million-gallon reservoir for almost a whole year just to repair the cover as a major priority, but obviously not.

Now it's certainly possible that non-DEI chiefs wouldn't have fared any better.  We'll never know.