California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for an investigation into how the lack of water pressure and water supply has impacted ongoing efforts to fight the devastating Los Angeles fires.
Newsom, 57, issued a letter to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Los Angeles County Public Works, calling the ordeal “deeply troubling.”
“While water supplies from local fire hydrants are not designed to extinguish wildfires over large areas, losing supplies from fire hydrants likely impaired the effort to protect some homes and evacuation corridors,” Newsom wrote in the letter.
“We need answers to how that happened,” Newsom added in his memo, stating that officials have been instructed to provide “an incident after-incident report.”
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“I am calling for an independent investigation into the loss of water pressure to local fire hydrants and the reported unavailability of …