Fires threaten more neighbourhoods as LA death toll rises to 16

I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,

said Greg Pierce, a water-resource expert at UCLA

We’ve lost most of the hydrant pressure,

one firefighter said around 2:45 a.m. as he requested help refilling fire engines, ... according to a county dispatch recording

We’re fighting a wildfire with urban water systems and that is really challenging,

she said

Rest assured…we will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked, and what didn’t work, and to correct – or to hold accountable – anybody, department, individual, etcetera,

she said

We don't need AI 'art.' We don't need AI grocery lists. We don't need AI self-driving cars. We don't need ChatGPT or Gemini or Grok or DALL-E or whatever 'revolutionary' technology already exists inside our own human brains. We need the earth,

wrote makeup artist and activist Matt Bernstein in an Instagram post that has gained almost 500,000 likes

One search on ChatGPT uses 10x the amount of energy as a Google search. Training one AI model produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as 300 round trip flights between New York and San Francisco and five times the lifetime emissions of a car."

In Bernstein's viral Instagram post, he wrote

The [water] system has never been designed to fight a wildfire that then envelops a community."

Martin Adams, former general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power told the Los Angeles Times

I ordered city government into action immediately this morning, and our first responders have been out across the city ensuring the safety of our residents

Mayor Daniel Lurie said on Friday