Around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, the water level in the highest ... ferries water from a Bel-Air reservoir to the Westside before curving uphill into the Palisades Highlands. They wrestled with a high ...

Firefighters fighting the Palisades Fire ... billions of gallons of water had been released from local reservoirs over the prior year out of an effort to keep water levels low should dams fail ...

also cites the lack of water from LADWP reservoirs. The agency’s 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir in Pacific Palisades had been sitting empty for nearly a year, awaiting repairs to its cover.

At the time, more than a few people noticed that the release of the water, ostensibly to help quench the epic wildfires that had been raging in and around Altadena and Pacific Palisades ...

It also says the Santa Ynez Reservoir, which is located atop Pacific Palisades, had been empty since February of last year, leading to more difficulty in accessing water during the firefight.