This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames arrived
After the flames destroyed nearly 500 houses in Bel-Air and Brentwood in 1961, Los Angeles had to account for fire fighting.
In 1964, city leaders added 13 fire station, mapped the fire mouths, bought helicopters and sent more crews to the mountains of Santa Monica. To respond to Pacific Palisades’ growth, they built a tank in the Santa Ynez canyon, as well as a pumping station “to increase fire protection”, as Gerald W. Jones said, then engineer In chief waters of the Los Angeles Ministry of Water and Energy. Time in 1972.
