LA water chief 'was aware of broken hydrants' months before fires
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The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com. On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May - almost double that of her predecessor. Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.
And, Daily Mail.com has learned, Quiñones past employer is also linked to fire scandals. She was previously a top executive at electricity company PG&E, which went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California. She served as senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from 2021 to 2023. The utility company's power lines sparked the second-largest wildfire in California history, Dixie, in 2021. Its involvement in the 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E a $13.5billion legal settlement.
The firm's liability for allegedly causing fires was estimated at $30billion when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. It exited bankruptcy in 2020. Quiñones joined PG&E in April 2021 as Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering, switched to Senior Vice President of Electric Operations in July 2022, and left the firm in December 2023. Janisse Quiñones, the newly appointed chief executive officer and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, bumbled through a press conference Wednesday (left) while addressing the lack of water available to extinguish the raging wildfires Quiñones said water sources ran dry by 3am local time Wednesday and blamed it on low pressure in the system and the water being used faster than it was being replenished (Pictured: A firefighter removes a hose from a hydrant after it ran out of water) Sources told DailyMail.com that since her hiring at LADWP, Quiñones oversaw the shutdown and emptying of a reservoir in the Pacific Palisades during brushfire season.
The shutdown meant firefighters battling the current Palisades Fire ran out of water faster, experts say. The Santa Ynez Reservoir is designed to hold 117 million gallons of drinking water. But it was taken offline in recent months to repair a tear in its cover that exposed the water and potentially impacted its drinkability. The shutdown was first publicly reported by the LA Times on Friday morning. Former DWP general manager Martin Adams told the paper that having the Santa Ynez reservoir would have helped fight the Palisades Fire that wiped out most of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood this week.
'Would Santa Ynez have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don't think so,' Adams said. He said the crucial reservoir had been offline 'for slot gacor a while' before the fires, but didn't know the precise date. But a source in the LA Fire Department (LAFD) told DailyMail.com that DWP officials told them 'had it not been closed they probably would have been ok and slot gacor had enough water for the fire.' Insiders, however, tell DailyMail.com the DWP chief had been aware of the broken hydrants around the city for months A well-connected former LAFD senior officer told DailyMail.
And, Daily Mail.com has learned, Quiñones past employer is also linked to fire scandals. She was previously a top executive at electricity company PG&E, which went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California. She served as senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from 2021 to 2023. The utility company's power lines sparked the second-largest wildfire in California history, Dixie, in 2021. Its involvement in the 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E a $13.5billion legal settlement.
The firm's liability for allegedly causing fires was estimated at $30billion when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. It exited bankruptcy in 2020. Quiñones joined PG&E in April 2021 as Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering, switched to Senior Vice President of Electric Operations in July 2022, and left the firm in December 2023. Janisse Quiñones, the newly appointed chief executive officer and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, bumbled through a press conference Wednesday (left) while addressing the lack of water available to extinguish the raging wildfires Quiñones said water sources ran dry by 3am local time Wednesday and blamed it on low pressure in the system and the water being used faster than it was being replenished (Pictured: A firefighter removes a hose from a hydrant after it ran out of water) Sources told DailyMail.com that since her hiring at LADWP, Quiñones oversaw the shutdown and emptying of a reservoir in the Pacific Palisades during brushfire season.
The shutdown meant firefighters battling the current Palisades Fire ran out of water faster, experts say. The Santa Ynez Reservoir is designed to hold 117 million gallons of drinking water. But it was taken offline in recent months to repair a tear in its cover that exposed the water and potentially impacted its drinkability. The shutdown was first publicly reported by the LA Times on Friday morning. Former DWP general manager Martin Adams told the paper that having the Santa Ynez reservoir would have helped fight the Palisades Fire that wiped out most of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood this week.
'Would Santa Ynez have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don't think so,' Adams said. He said the crucial reservoir had been offline 'for slot gacor a while' before the fires, but didn't know the precise date. But a source in the LA Fire Department (LAFD) told DailyMail.com that DWP officials told them 'had it not been closed they probably would have been ok and slot gacor had enough water for the fire.' Insiders, however, tell DailyMail.com the DWP chief had been aware of the broken hydrants around the city for months A well-connected former LAFD senior officer told DailyMail.
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