Santa Ynez Reservoir

We are no better off today than we were before the fires that burned down the Palisades.

They drained the Santa Ynez Reservoir again because the tarp that they repaired had to be replaced entirely.

And since we're moving at Karen speed, we've been without water for another year with no end in sight.

And what was their brilliant idea to get around this? Running a rubber hose through six miles of flammable brush all the way from Topanga full of kinks and bends with one fire nearly melting this thing already? This is the

But while the dry fire hydrants made national news, I don't think people realize just how bad this story is.

The Santa Ynez Reservoir didn't just feed our fire hydrants, but it's also a helispot, where fire copters load up on water.

Because that helispot was offline, the copters-

I think that's footage from when the Palisades got caught on fire in 2021, and George Gascon said, "Well, the homeless arsonist that started all the fires was probably just cold." [laughs] That is also, just for a quick history lesson, that Palisades fire in 2021 was where this drop came from.

That-

This is the indictment of not just Karen Bass, not just Denise Quinones, but the city of Los Angeles.

When you talk about the water main break that flooded Sunset Boulevard for over a week and a half, you talk about the Santa Ynez Reservoir that was empty because of deferred maintenance.

For as much as we blast PG&E and SoCal Edison for their deferred maintenance, the deferred maintenance of the LADWP has been an absolute disaster, and that one's on the city.