In the Palisades Fire, LA DWP’s 3 huge water tanks all ran out of water

Mammoth wildfires put unprecedented demands on local water agencies in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday and Wednesday, dwarfing available resources needed to battle the flames.

Janisse Quiñones, CEO of LADWP, said Wednesday that the department saw four times the normal demand for water that “pushed the system to the extreme,” which in turn seriously lowered the water pressure as the firestorm spread across Pacific Palisades.

She said at a press conference that her department had four...