With those winds being very calm this morning, I believe we can actually make some progress, turn a corner, and start to build some containment on these fires," Brent Pascua, a Cal Fire battalion chief, told the Today Show on Thursday.
City employees have now been able to reach three water tanks on hills near the Palisades Fire to turn up the pressure. That allows the tanks to be refilled more quickly so they can keep supplying the hydrants, Stewart says. Each tank can hold 1 million gallons. "We have full flowing hydrants," she says.
Meanwhile, other airplanes are dropping fire retardant out ahead of the inferno, coating potential fuel with a layer of non-flammable chemicals and slowing its advance. A C-130 cargo plane that Cal Fire acquired from the Coast Guard and retrofitted this summer can dump 4,000 gallons of retardant.
More firefighters have begun to arrive from Utah, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, and New Mexico. Several dozen task forces are on their way, according to Stewart, each with five fire engines plus a command vehicle.
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