A group of resident boxes of Pacific Palisades and Malibu are demanding the angels, and specifically the Department of Water and Power of Los Angeles (LADWP), for negligence in the recent forest fires that destroyed their homes.
As Breitbart News and others have reported, the Santa Ynez reservoir on Las Palisades, which is handled by LADWP and has up to 117 million gallons, was almost empty at the beginning of the forest fire season.
That, the residents say, captivated their homes to miss a fire that could have mitigated if the hydrants had not lost the water pressure and if the city authorities had prepared properly before a known fire risk.
The plaintiffs include a holocaust survivor and a retired Navy pilot, whose stories are part of the complaints.
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The Times previously reported that in the period prior to the hell of January 7, the Santa Ynez reservoir I had been empty For months and more than 1,000 hydrants They needed repair. As the fire spread that night, hydrants scores in Pacific Palisades Ran under water.
The complaint also states that the DWP ignored the warnings of urgent wind and maintained its electrical equipment in the energized area, which “contributed to the fires or caused new fires in the burning zone of Palisades.
“All these tasks together make the city, including the DWP, be guilty of the damages that customers have suffered losing their homes and all their valuable possessions,” said Crystal Nix-Hines, a member of Quinn Emanuel, Plainthart, the law firm, the law. “This could have leg prevention.”
The new demand joins a handful of others who are already moving. Two celebrities have already sued Ladwp. Los Angeles County is signing south of California Edison for the Eaton fire, which according to the county was caused by defective electricity lines. Another demand filed last month states that Ladwp Power Lines caused a second fire in Las Palisades.
While LADWP could not fill the deposit on time, he hired the best legal talents in February to defend the demands.
Separately, the County said it will win $ 3 million to help the victims of the Eaton fire to perform soil tests to determine if the chemicals such as lead are close to their property.
A consultant told the residents on Tuesday night that although there were high concentrations of lead in parts of the Pacific Palisadas, other elements that had been found, such as arsenic, can naturally occur on the ground.
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