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That is it in a nutshell...............No matter the amount of water available, No matter what pressure you use, there is a limit of volume of water that you can push thru a pipe of different diameters..........The city mains are not designed, like Iron Lion says to handle a hundred hydrants, fifty hydrants or even ten hydrants.......

Also, pressure at a lower elevation is more than pressure at a higher elevation. The pressure drops a pound for every two feet of elevation. In addition, if all the water is being used at a lower elevation, obviously none will reach the higher pipes.

It boggles my mind, all the mis-information being broadcast by the media, including what is being spewed by Trump. Including by members of the Command of the LAFD.........

In my opinion, the only way to effectively and safely fight a "conflagration" such as this, is by Air........

Another point that no one has mentioned is that each structure has water supplied out of the same water mains as the hydrants.
During the fire and collapse faucets and toilets are broken and just running water continuously......take a single structure's water loss from this situation and multiply it by hundreds, if not thousands of structures........................