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“This meant that Pacific Palisades only had 2.5% of its total water storage capacity available to fight the Palisades Fire.”

Officials later built a $1.5-million drain pipe to divert rainwater away from the basin and worked to increase storage capacity of the area’s catch basins.

“Los Angeles needs more water storage capacity, particularly in elevated areas, for fire protection,” said Sanjay Mohanty, an associate professor of engineering at UCLA.

“Phoenix’s largest pressure zone is massive and the storage capacity in it is such that Phoenix could fight multiple fires for a very long period of time without running out of pressure for fire hydrants,” she said.

The Devilla site will take the company's storage capacity up to 1.5GW.