Monday, May 05, 2025

We're Finally Learning More About the Closed Santa Ynez Reservoir - John Sexton

Yesterday, the NY Times published a follow up story about the Santa Ynez reservoir after the city finally released a bunch of new documents in response to an FOIA request.
AP Photo/Eugene Garcia
Back in January, when firefighters were doing their best to fight the blaze in the Pacific Palisades, the fire hydrants started running out of water. 
Developer Rick Caruso commented about this on local television and his comments went viral. 
That led to this amazing video in which a local news anchor tried to debunk Caruso's claims only to have a reporter on scene correct him seconds later. 
Watch the whole clip.

Later that day city officials admitted the Palisades had run out of water...

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