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Airtankers get water from the ocean to fight the Palisades Fire Jan. 9, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Apu Gomes / Getty Images
Maybe people think that the fire department should have thrown hoses in the ocean and then run a few miles of hose up into the hills to a pumper truck to provide water. Now if we only had hundreds of miles of hose, another three or four thousand fire fighters, and another 500 trucks, maybe the homes up on the hill would have survived
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For some reason, folks keep making the claim that water from the ocean was not used. Those making the claim are usually those that don’t live in California and have no idea what had been going on.
Airtankers get water from the ocean to fight the Palisades Fire Jan. 9, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. / Credit: Apu Gomes / Getty Images
Maybe people think that the fire department should have thrown hoses in the ocean and then run a few miles of hose up into the hills to a pumper truck to provide water. Now if we only had hundreds of miles of hose, another three or four thousand fire fighters, and another 500 trucks, maybe the homes up on the hill would have survived
