By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-10 23:19:36 | Updated at 2025-01-11 02:13:15
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EXCLUSIVE LA's $750k-a-year water chief Janisse Quiñones 'knew about empty reservoir and broken hydrants' months before fires
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 10, 2025 | Josh Boswell
Posted on 01/10/2025 3:13:34 PM PST by Morgana
The $750,000-a-year LA water czar is responsible for a raft of failures that contributed to the devastating Palisades Fire, fire department insiders told DailyMail.com.
On Mayor Karen Bass's orders, the city maxed out its budget to 'attract private-sector talent', hiring Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones on a $750,000 salary in May – almost double that of her predecessor.
Now, Quiñones is being blamed by LA Fire Department (LAFD) insiders for leaving a nearby reservoir disconnected and fire hydrants broken for months, DailyMail.com can reveal, leading to firefighters running out of water as they battled the devastating Palisades Fire this week.
And, Daily Mail.com has learned, Quiñones past employer is also linked to fire scandals. She was previously a top executive at electricity company PG&E, which went bankrupt over liability for several massive wildfires in California.
She served as senior vice president at Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) from 2021 to 2023.
The utility company's power lines sparked the second-largest wildfire in California history, Dixie, in 2021. Its involvement in the 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E a $13.5billion legal settlement.
The firm's liability for allegedly causing fires was estimated at $30billion when it filed for bankruptcy in 2018. It exited bankruptcy in 2020.
Quiñones joined PG&E in April 2021 as Senior Vice President of Gas Engineering, switched to Senior Vice President of Electric Operations in July 2022, and left the firm in December 2023.
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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: california; dereliction; hydrants; losangeles; negligence; quiones; reservoir; scandal; water; wildfires
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1 posted on 01/10/2025 3:13:34 PM PST by Morgana
To: Morgana
She won’t be fired. They’ll win from this. More federal funding. More taxes.
The reasonable voters -35% for Trump in that area - will take their insurance money and run. Win for them.
2 posted on 01/10/2025 3:16:23 PM PST by TigerClaws
To: Morgana
The President of the United States makes 400,000 a year in salary. If we want lousy government, we should at least not overpay for it.
3 posted on 01/10/2025 3:19:06 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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