When three 1-million-gallon water storage tanks in Pacific Palisades ran dry Tuesday night, firefighters were forced to abandon efforts to save thousands of homes. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones has claimed that her utility did all it could to prepare for the wind event, but left out one crucial detail: the Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon water source, had been drained and taken offline for maintenance—despite the state’s ongoing wildfire season.
In their post, the watchdog group stated:
“The Santa Ynez Reservoir…was drained for maintenance during brush fire season. While the three tanks…were full at the time of the fire, they were unable to meet the demand without the reservoir to refill them. This reckless decision…left firefighters without sufficient water and severely hindered their efforts. DWP CEO Janisse Quiñones…demands her immediate resignation.”
The Los Angeles Times followed up, confirming that the reservoir had been drained for repairs. Former LADWP General Manager Martin Adams explained that while the reservoir could have helped, it wouldn’t have been a complete solution. “Would Santa Ynez have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don’t think so,” Adams said.
Officials haven’t disclosed how long the reservoir had been offline. Adams suggested it had been empty for an extended period due to a tear in its cover. Quiñones attributed the inability to refill the tanks to excessive demand and hazardous fire conditions that disrupted efforts to reroute water.
Quiñones explained that the extreme demand, about four times the normal usage over 15 hours, overwhelmed the system’s capacity. She stated that crews attempting to refill one tank had to be evacuated due to fire dangers.
Adams estimated that if the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been operational, demand might have been reduced to three times the normal rate, which still would have strained the system. “Eventually, you would have gotten to the same place,” Adams noted, cautioning that his analysis was a rough estimate.
An LADWP spokesperson stated that the utility is conducting a root-cause analysis to determine the reservoir’s impact. They emphasized that the system was never designed for wildfire scenarios of this magnitude. However, critics argue that the Palisades’ proximity to wildfire-prone mountains and canyons makes such scenarios predictable and necessitates better preparation.
Quiñones, who took over as LADWP’s CEO in May 2024, previously worked for Northern California’s Pacific Gas & Electric, a utility also criticized for its wildfire-related failures. Her appointment came with a controversial salary of $750,000—nearly double that of her predecessor, Adams. Defending the decision, Councilmember Kevin de León said the high pay was necessary to attract top talent from the private sector.
Despite the salary, Quiñones’ leadership has come under intense scrutiny following the Palisades fire. Critics question why such a critical water source was offline during peak wildfire season. The reservoir’s maintenance, while necessary, appears to have been poorly timed and inadequately communicated to the public.
As LADWP continues its investigation, the broader issue of wildfire preparedness looms large. The Palisades fire underscores the critical need for robust infrastructure and forward-thinking planning in high-risk areas. For now, the question remains: could better leadership and resource management have mitigated the devastating loss of homes and lives?
The Palisades community is demanding answers and accountability, and the outcome of LADWP’s root-cause analysis will likely shape the future of wildfire response in Los Angeles.
Another Satanic Traitor “guilty of murder and destruction” that needs to be tried and executed at GITMO!
“DWP CEO Janisse Quiñones…demands her immediate resignation.”
Too little TOO LATE!
“Her appointment came with a controversial salary of $750,000—nearly double that of her predecessor, Adams. Defending the decision, Councilmember Kevin de León said the high pay was necessary to attract top talent from the private sector.”
Really, this is what you people call attracting talent? Looks like you didn’t get your money’s worth huh!
I’d say it’s more about “greasing palms, corruption and sheer stupidity;” all major traits of DEI, Leftist and Progressive Demoncrap Ilk!
You evil sick Bitches and Bastards own all of it, and “you will pay the price,” because as sure as there is a God above all this; “your day is coming!”
DIE is killing the country. STOP IT!!!!
It’s an evil agenda by evil people, like transgenderism is with them pushing it in elementary schools to warp children’s minds and ruin or kill!
I wish it had been L.A. & S.F. that burned instead. Those two dens-of-iniquity have to go.
This fire was obviously planned.
A. The FireDept defunded
B. Water tanks emptied out
C. Surrounding forests not maintained
D. Idiots with flame throwers
Those are FACTS!
The conclusion or Verdict is obvious!
Well here’s my assessment, They voted Communist Democrats every time,
They praised Democrats;
They contributed to Democrats;
They Endorsed Democrats;
They believed Democrats;
They Voted in the same Democrats;
They paid higher taxes by Democrats;
They faught for Democrats;
And now the Communist Democrats let them down costing the lives of many people and $Billions of dollars in property with Thousands of acres of forest burned.!
And just like Communist Democrats do all the time is place the blame on President Trump.
So my final question is; Are you through voting for Communist Democrats Commifornia, or will you continue voting for Communist Democrats.?
Because Commifornia, heeded the warnings by Republicans, they are the ones to blame.
They didn’t heed the warnings by Republicans..
They were in bed together for decades with a Cobra Snake who wanted to “possess them lock stock and barrel” before killing them! Hollywood thought it was “a great snake charmer” and then got into the “snakes games” ever so slowly but surely as well, with all of “the corruption, insanity and evil they perpetrated with the snake!”
But then, alas “the snake made them all an ass;” a “jackass ship of fools” going down for the count, and “the party is over; and you can cry if you want to Hollywood” but, “it won’t do any good at this point that ship left long ago” and “you missed the boat both figuratively and literally!”
Guys like Mel Gibson were sounding the alarm, but, all you could do then was cancel him! Bad choice for you! Now the consequences of those choices arrived!
Quite sad and horrible too!
Michael my Brother! So crystalline and to the heart of it as always! You’ve tapped into so much of what I was awakened to years ago when I was right in the thick of it all there in LA and Hollywood! I’m so freaking upset that this is all happening and I knew the ugliness and evil had its coils around so much, but I had to get away and stay away for my own well-being; yet I wish I could have done something to stop it before it got this insane and horrible catastrophe! But Mel Gibson who I greatly admire as one who God chose to do some work on this massive monstrosity has worked at it and it damn near killed him a couple of times like many of the battles you have fought and stayed the course too, Mel did God’s will fine, like you have! So now I feel a lot better knowing my own imperfection gets me stirred up, but, then I have to “kick myself in the ass” and say “hey dummy who is charge so chill out and go with it man!” OK, so I now laugh at myself and yeah I’m a funny ass nitwit at times! “Let go and let God;” His will is, what matters not mine!
So Stace, she too had a fine comment at the bottom of the page making it a good slot or shoe-in, for as usual my often times long winded one, so it won’t all be on the edge of the right side of the page!!!
Good God, thank you for this inspiration Michael! And just when I had to bring out the other Mike Smith! Again who is in charge!!!
Love to Y’all!!!
Thank you brother Lawrence and your welcome. I just call it out as I see it.
California is Zombie land–leadership are the walking dead! I hope the Californians “wake up” instead of “woke up” hows that working for ya?
Stace, you nailed that well! I left that locale years ago long enough before to not be around when the worst of it got out of control. I wrote about the Darkness I could sense, feel and see behind all of the Tinseltown intoxication and mesmerizing.
After a short while of being away I could see the sinister forces taking hold and my own mother said about my getting out, “that God saved you Larry;” she was absolutely spot-on to say that and like only a mother can tell! Brings a tear to my eyes still even now!
I was seeing things in a similar way like Mike Smith the stuntman, and Interestingly like my good Brother and friend Michael Smith a Leo we all know here on this site; what I ended up doing years later when I realized what I could see happening clearly aligned with his production based on his experiences in, “Out of Shadows” and years back after seeing that documentary which touched on things like mind control and the Hollywood scene being a tool used by many sinister persons and the diabolical for manipulation of the masses; akin to say the CIA using MK-Ultra, some say even with some pop stars to groom large swaths of the public.
I suddenly was aware of what I said in my writings years back; I like many of you see in this world as it “teeters on the verge of frightening potentialities or calamities!” And now look at the things that have been happening all over the country and world! It’s so shocking and if people haven’t awakened to God’s truth yet they are either dead or do not want to see that truth!
High technology was becoming the “ripe fruit” that Lenin the founder of Communism said about how the United States and Western capitalism would “fall like ripened fruit” into the hands of the Soviets!
Not so much the Lenin depiction of the West falling like “ripe fruit” into the clutches of Communism, but, as I know from experience and some gained wisdom now, that this is “a bigger master plan by the master deceiver for the Human Race to fall into the clutches of Satan himself Vis-a Vis the coming antichrist!”
Here’s a bit of info:
Out of Shadows> ://archive.org/details/outofshadowsofficial_20200415
The following I cued up to a good point to hear first and then watch the whole interview; this is where Mike Smith says something profoundly important about now and this was recorded about one year ago.
://youtu.be/jEJrjWXLXQE?t=1582
God bless you and yours.
Take care Y’all.
Hey I just caught this as it popped into my view just as I was going to send out my long comment “meant to be,” so as an added tidbit check it out! God is speaking I’m so thankful!!! I got to love Mel he sure stayed close to the heat of the flame and was and is an instrument!
Fox News:
Mel Gibson’s message to Newsom: ‘Spend less on hair gel!’
://youtu.be/8tEpCj_yvxU
Self Inflicted disaster. Learn to love what you voted for!
BIDEN’S FINAL BETRAYAL:
In one of his final acts, President Biden extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from Sudan, Ukraine, El Salvador, and Venezuela. While the administration touts this as an act of compassion, the reality is far darker: it’s a dangerous ploy to cement future political power at the expense of American safety and sovereignty. This isn’t just policy—it’s a betrayal of the American people.
Let’s call it what it is. Extending TPS doesn’t just open the door for future Democratic voters—it opens the door for crime, chaos, and a weakened nation. This heinous move prioritizes political gain over the safety and well-being of American families. It’s sickening, plain and simple.
Temporary Protected Status: A Gateway to Disaster
TPS was supposed to be a short-term solution for extreme crises like natural disasters or wars. Instead, it’s been weaponized as a backdoor for long-term residency with no real accountability. Under Biden’s extension:
600,000 Venezuelans are now shielded until 2026, despite the documented presence of violent gangs like Tren de Aragua, which has infiltrated American communities.
232,000 Salvadorans receive protection, even as their home country remains the breeding ground for MS-13, one of the most violent criminal organizations in the world.
100,000 Ukrainians and 1,900 Sudanese are also included, further expanding the program’s reach.
The question is simple: how many more lives will be put at risk before this administration stops gambling with our safety?
Prioritizing Non-Citizens Over Americans
Let’s not pretend this is about compassion. This is about political power, plain and simple. By extending TPS, Biden and the Democrats are attempting to creat a future voter base that will likely remain loyal to the party that shielded them. It’s a cold, calculated strategy designed to undermine the integrity of our elections. And the cost? American lives.
Consider this: MS-13 gang members and criminals linked to the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have already infiltrated our communities. These groups are responsible for violence, drug trafficking, and human smuggling. Yet, Biden’s policies give them a pass while hardworking Americans struggle to feel safe in their own neighborhoods.
Biden’s Legacy: A Nation in Peril
This isn’t the first time Democrats have put politics over people, but this might be the most blatant example yet. By extending TPS just days before leaving office, Biden has tied the hands of the incoming Trump administration. These protections will remain in place until 2026, making it nearly impossible to roll them back immediately.
President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance have vowed to tackle this issue head-on. But the damage has already been done. Biden has left a nation divided, vulnerable, and betrayed. His actions make it clear: the well-being of Americans is secondary to his party’s long-term goals.
This is more than a policy disagreement—it’s an outright assault on American safety and sovereignty. By prioritizing non-citizens over the very people he was elected to serve, Biden has shown where his true loyalties lie. It’s not with the American worker. It’s not with the victims of gang violence. It’s not with the grieving families who’ve lost loved ones to crimes committed by individuals who should never have been here in the first place.
The Trump administration faces an uphill battle, but one thing is clear: if we don’t stand up now, we risk losing everything that makes this country strong, safe, and free. Enough is enough.
Communist voters will blame President Trump for a Traitorous act against the American Citizens by Communist Joe Biden and the Communist Democrat Party.
Look our Congress and basically “the entire non-government of the People” is non-existent for all intent and purposes as they “don’t give a rat’s ass about any of us peons at all!~” They with the WEF, WHO, UN, Etc. were and still are in on the extermination of hundreds of millions of people from the Covid Plan-demic attack around the globe! Remember how the masks and even more than one Fauci said at a time can be better to protect you with your Jabs and yet our USA now has unvetted peoples from over 150 nations running loose spreading whatever diseases they are carrying; but our Government is about protecting us the Citizens with the Sovereignty of our Nation according to the Constitution?
This is all part of “a most diabolical plan by the Illuminati and Satan worshiping devils” running our modern civilization “which is not civilized” but is rather “demonic evil” to the core; to bring on “Antichrist” who will rule the massive Hell-Hole!
They were all in on the Globalist Cabals “Global Reset” and Plan to exterminate Hundreds of Millions to eventually Billions of People, and that plan is still in effect! Think, really think, and see how Clinton’s, Obama’s, Biden’s, Pelosi’s and many of the LIARS are swimming in Hundreds of $Millions and even $Billions; then ask yourself how is that possible and why, when they came from basic middle class backgrounds, then in relatively speaking no time at all got to that level of affluence and power for what, being (supposed) “public servant!?” No all are “owned and tools of ‘the most evil people’ behind the scenes the master puppeteers” if you will and the big one Satan! They “sold out for that wealth and power” and in turn they are “instruments of our destruction; servants to Satan!”
Accept it or not we are in the Third World War, the “End War!”
Folks it’s “much worse” than we had thought and even that it looked! This is and has been a “multi-pronged attack on America” for many years but that really got ramped up in just the last 25 years.
Outside of massive “divine intervention;” which would be the “Second Coming of Jesus Christ,” I see no way how this is going to change for the better at all! The most evil forces and persons on earth are running this giant hellhole “over the precipice into oblivion!”
So pray for that “Intervention;” because the wolves some in sheep’s clothing have been sent out to tear us to shreds.
I’ve said for a long time Biden is America’s Own Man of Perdition and this is it, we are in the “Battle of all Battles!” It should be so obvious by now!
Amen. All I can say is they have their reward here on earth because hell is not going to be the place they think it is. I think about all the sex-trafficked children who may have been behind closed doors at least they will be free, now.
Esther; bless you and great point, as it fully illustrates the contrast and horrific dichotomy at work in this secular, materialistic and modern fallen world! I hate to be harsh, but, this place is screwed and has always been on that road to perdition, but now its hellfire coming at it!
Thank you for saying what you did here!
God bless you and yours!
I agree that the fire was not normal because of the winds, but CA has a history of not taking care of things to limit the amount of destruction. If CA had allowed people to go in and clear the dead and dying trees, that would have been a benefit. If people had cleared the areas around their homes that could have helped. Not only were homes destroyed, but think of the animals that succumbed to the fire because they could not get away. The loss is staggering, and knowing that white men were not qualified to be fighters. Who cares about the color of the skin in an emergency? It appears we need “common sense” not wokeness.
Esther; again thank you and all these points are spot-on!
This really gets to me as I did think about it from the get-goes being an animal advocate and wildlife rehabilitator over the years it makes me cry! Sure all things in this world come to an end or at times may suffer, but when so much is unnecessary, that to me is sinful and rotten! Because it’s usually people who directly cause so much of it; being so selfish and gluttonous!
California is a Communist state. They are stealing the elections to keep it that way, and things will only get worse.
Terry Earl; you are correct and I did live there years ago but didn’t even like the way it was going then before it got this bad but evil controls the trajectory of that state! They’ve used ballot harvesting and many forms of controlling an election outcome, how else would a raving wicked lunatic like Maxine Waters or an Adam Schiff the prolific lying scoundrel keep being elected! Then look what the Governor is, and that creep is pure evil personified!
Appears that another DEI hire has cost people their lives and the lucky ones only millions of dollars. The comment that the reservoir being filled might have been helpful but the outcome would have been the same is just an excuse to cover the asses of the idiots who authorized draining and doing repairs during their annual wildfire season. Heads should roll over the gross mismanagement right up to the governor who has done nothing to alleviate any of the conditions that annually feed the fire this state endures.
henry plante; all true and all I can add is that DEI hires are evil as they are always unqualified and ungrateful twisted ingrates to start! The Governor is absolutely one of the most evil people I’ve seen in my travels!
The amount of money these useless tools are being paid is criminal in itself; that kind of salary would provide for the crème la crème the very top of the heap, cream of the crop, best possible people to head these departments! But they hired losers and misfits to do CRITICAL JOBS!
Anyone out there arguing with me, all I say is do you want one of them flying the jetliner you’re in next time you travel! If you do you’re as crazy as they are!
And for those Evil people in Commifornia, who mocks God almighty what do you make of this where a righteous family’s home burnt to the ground leaving nothing but a shrine of the Mother Mary fully intact.
Yes a picture was shown of the Mother Mary unharmed by the fire.
Now explain that Communist Democrats.!!
Newscum and his band of Evil Demonic Communist Democrats will not speak of it or they’ll make up lies and propaganda.!
Brother Michael, absolutely and anyone that is honest and faces reality but more importantly believes in God Almighty in Jesus’ name knows that Karl Marx was a openly Satan worshiping evil devil, that even talked his own two daughters into committing suicide! And so I say it again anyone that is a communist is a Satan worshiper and therefore Antichrist; and the whole Demoncrap party (Rino’s too) are communists!
Plenty of Americans are heading straight to hell; well don’t let that bottomless pit door whack you on the way down you destroyers, just hurry on down!
Agreed brother, did you happen to see the shrine of the Mother Mary.?
That shows me that a Devine statement is coming should the Anti-American, Anti-Christian, Evil people don’t change their ways very soon.
But they won’t change for the good of mankind, instead they’ll continue on with their Evil ways. That’s my opinion.
My Brother Michael you are 100% correct and on point! What you said is the truth and God’s truth as in Scripture it stated there are those in End Time who will proudly march into hell rather than bow to the Lord and accept their guilt! If people can’t see that this is all “prophesied times and events” in the “once upon a time miraculous great America” that is now a cesspool that needs one giant eternal flush, then they are on board with all of this evil and are evil themselves!
I actually many years ago lived on the upper end of Sunset Blvd. in Pacific Palisades as a renter for a while and overall the locale was wonderful and the people were decent; so I say what’s happened there is so beyond sad and actually so frightening, that to me it’s totally diabolical and has to be part of the End Times signs spoken about in Scriptures, things are coming to a head!
Yes I saw a few amazing signs that have been brought to light, like that which you mentioned and I’m sure more will come as God is speaking to his people, and all those evil too, but when He comes then it will be no signs, but total judgment upon this fallen world, and right in everyone’s face!
Praise God in Jesus’ name.
Amen.