A power line is down and a tree is on fire on Buskirk Ave., just north of Mayhew Way in Pleasant Hill.
Use caution if you’re in the area.
image: courtesy of PulsePoint
October 27, 2019 12:41 pm · 9 comments
A power line is down and a tree is on fire on Buskirk Ave., just north of Mayhew Way in Pleasant Hill.
Use caution if you’re in the area.
image: courtesy of PulsePoint
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So much for turning off all the power to prevent fires.
California is burning & we have no power to pump from the fire hydrants.
Brilliant Gavin Newsom & PG&E.
Fire hydrants work through pressure, not electricity. Go back to school, DVC Student.
Pretty sure that at least some fire trucks have built in pumps in case the pressure is low. And, is a sustained power outage water pressure can drop if the utility can pump water into the storage tanks…
Concernicus – Wrong!
Fire hydrants get their pressure from electric pumps.
That’s why Berkeley/Oakland Hills burned out of control in the 1991 Firestorm cuz once the power lines went down, firefighters couldn’t get water from the hydrants.
Instead of attacking my education, join me at school.
@Bill It wouldn’t drop to 0, though. It’ll still flow, just not quite at breakneck speed.
You’d also have to know where the hydrant water was being sourced, and whether or not that source has even had its electricity cut, given that not everybody has had their power severed. (Mostly inner city areas have retained power as it’s assumed they’re low risk for fires.)
DVC Student said “have no power to pump FROM the fire hydrants”, so that’s what I was addressing. You do have valid points, though, Bill.
@DVC Student
The East Bay Municipal Utility District serving Alameda and Contra Costa counties, recently spent $409,000 to rent 29 backup generators for use beginning at noon Wednesday.
“The backup generators that we have are stationed at the pumping plants, which pump water to the fire hydrants,” spokeswoman Andrea Pook told the San Francisco Chronicle. “The local tanks have been filled as much as we can, and we have made sure the generators are ready to go.”
(Source: Time.com, dated October 9th 2019)
Pretty sure people learned from the 1991 event and specifically made sure it wouldn’t happen again. You may know history, but it pays to also know modern events as well.
If you guys don’t quit fighting about who knows more, you won’t be paying attention to your evacuation notice. Cheer up buttercups. Get your hoses ready 😁 concernicus and dvc student
My hose was born ready.
I wanna use my hose to piss on Concernicus’ generator & short it out for coming for my education. 😁 😁