When a major fire breaks out in an urban or city environment it is quite common for a pumper or two to tap in a block or so away from the scene in order to “boost” the mains and therefor provide more than enough water to the units actually fighting the fire. In other words a single fire fighting effort can severely degrade local water pressure/flow rate.

I’ve been wondering about this “LA hydrants running dry” thing for a few days thinking something else could be at play.
As if the draw on the system wouldn’t be huge enough with the dozens of pumper units they use it appears another very significant factor was having an effect.
A crew chief I saw interviewed on a news report last night was lamenting that nearly all the houses are equipped with their own indoor sprinkler system, which is useless against fire from the outside but when house after house etc go up and all these sprinkler systems activate at full flow it bled critical flow out of the mains. The system was overwhelmed.

It also explains all the water you see running down driveways from most destroyed houses.

@DC_Draino

Map Time: These fires aren’t caused by “climate change”

Anyone with a functioning brain can see these LA fires are being started by arsonists in separate locations

Not to mention that they’re promising to fully compensate losses while they not only ignored North Carolina but actively worked to block local help.

@AdrianneCurry

Have you all noticed the news coverage of North Carolina was almost non-existent in comparison to Los Angeles? The government hardly cared. Los Angeles all over the news and Biden personally goes out there immediately?

Night and day the response from the press and Biden.

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Piers Akerman:

Anthony Albanese has called the latest attack on a synagogue hateful but has done nothing to curb the hate speech spewed regularly in mosques across Australia.

Indeed, the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), whose members host and support some of the most egregious Islamist preachers, received $515,324 from the government in 2024.

This amount is more than half (56.89 per cent) of its total $905,894 annual budget and is nearly 12 and a half times greater than the $41,303 that the Albanese government provided in 2023.

What could possibly justify this splurge on what is little more than an Islamist apology group?

After the recent Islamist terror attack on crowds in New Orleans’ tourist hotspot Bourbon Street, ANIC issued a warning to Australian media about its coverage of the event and claiming the “framing of the incident disproportionately emphasised the attacker’s identity and religion, with terms like ‘Islamic terrorism’ and ‘Muslim terrorists’ dominating coverage”.

“This selective focus raises serious concerns about biased reporting and reinforces harmful stereotypes,” the imams said in their statement.

“It perpetuates the false narrative that terrorism is inherently linked to Islam or any religion and implies that acts of terror are labelled as such only when committed by individuals of a particular faith or background.”

“This is categorically false and must be rejected.”

The imams need to get a grip. The majority of terrorist acts globally are committed by Islamists who claim they are acting in accordance with their understanding of the Koran.

The imams even pointed out that Muslim student Kareem Badawi was one of the 14 victims of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, as a reminder that terrorism doesn’t discriminate.

However, it is a fact that the overwhelming majority of terrorist acts occur in largely Muslim states, albeit they are committed by a small minority of Muslims in those places.

What the imams can’t escape from, however, is that in Australia, some of their members have glorified acts of barbarity and have urged their followers to celebrate the death of innocents.

There has been little, if anything, said about the torching of a synagogue, the bomb attack on the office of a Jewish federal MP, and the ongoing campaign of graffiti in suburbs in Melbourne and Sydney where there are large numbers of Jews.

What exactly is the Albanese government getting for the taxpayers’ money it spends on the nation’s imams?

It seems as senseless and wasteful a gesture as sending federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus to Israel as an emissary to make amends for the Labor government’s appalling treatment of our historic friend and ally.

Under Foreign Minister Penny Wong, DFAT has been more obliging to groups supporting terrorism than they have to Israelis who’ve been fighting for survival

Its noteworthy that the Palestinians’ de facto ambassador for the past 18 years, Izzat Abdulhadi, is ending his term with an attempt to justify his terrorist bosses’ murderous acts.

In a friendly interview with Nine Media, he said “even if Hamas does use human shields, this does not justify Israel killing the shields”.

International law, which neither Hamas nor Fatah observe as they regularly murder Israeli civilians, prohibits the use of human shields.

There have been no elections in either the West Bank, under the control of Fatah, or Gaza, under Hamas, since Abdulhadi effectively became the Palestinians’ de facto diplomatic representative in Canberra.

The latest slap in the face of our Israeli allies was the decision to send Dreyfus to Jerusalem on the basis that he is a Jew.

This tokenistic play of the identity card will not have escaped his hosts.

Before the Albanese government was elected, Dreyfus falsely assured the Jewish community there would be no significant change in Australia’s policy toward Israel.

Since then, Australia has voted for every anti-Israel motion at the United Nations.

He has failed to apply existing laws against hate speech to clerics such as Abu Ousayd, who gave a New Year’s Eve sermon in which he said “Jews were descendants of pigs and monkeys”.

He also opposed an independent judicial inquiry into anti-Semitism on university campuses and he has said nothing about the ICC’s baseless call to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Sadly, Australian Jews living close to the Lebanese border in areas which have come under rocket fire from Hezbollah forces believe they are now safer there than in suburban Melbourne, where Dreyfus lives.

With no intent to offend porcine-sensitive observant Jews or Muslims, sending Dreyfus to Israel to mend fences is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig.

A Palestinian envoy? Who seems to enjoy the murder of Israeli citizens saying that the human shields guarding the scum of humanity in Hamas shouldn’t be touched? Wong Chap should be putting him out of Australia.
As for the imams, deport them immediately.