… Through a public records request, Eyewitness News obtained an email from January 9 sent by Erik Scott, the public information officer for the Los Angeles Fire Department. The email was sent to top officials in the department, writing in part, “We are experiencing challenges with water pressure while battling the Pacific Palisades Fire.” But in multiple interviews with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, officials maintain they never ran out of water. They said the problem was that demand reached four times the normal use. … According to LADWP, Los Angeles has a single water system, meaning the water supplied to your home is the same water that feeds fire hydrants. … The system is designed to put out house fires, not multiple neighborhoods on fire at the same time.