Let’s talk about fire safety.
The Pacific Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, January 2025. AP Photo/Ethan Swope
Let’s talk about water sources.
Firefighters using Los Angeles’ drinking water to manage the Palisades Fire. Photo: New York Sun
Here’s what the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission doesn’t want you to know about water:
San Francisco can use seawater to stop any fire.
The Pacific Ocean at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
Now let’s ask Mayor Daniel Lurie:
Why is your home protected with seawater and the best high-pressure fire hydrants...
But two-thirds of San Francisco’s homes are not?
National Fire Danger Rating = Extreme
Bayview Heights
Crocker-Amazon
Excelsior
Ingleside
Little Hollywood
Merced Manor
Mission Terrace
Parkside
Portola
Richmond District, west of 12th Avenue
Sea Cliff
Sunnyside
Sunset District, west of 19th Avenue
Oceanview
Stonestown
A life-sized concrete statue of a man, headless and lying in the rubble of a burned-out Los Angeles neighborhood.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
Vote No on Prop A
And make sure San Francisco has Equal Fire Protection For All.
The Marina District (Beach and Divisadero Streets) on fire in San Francisco, October 1989. Photo: Contra Costa Times/Bob Pepping
On October 17, 1989, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area just as Game Three of the World Series was about to start. The quake caused 63 deaths, injured nearly 3,800 people, and ignited a massive firestorm in San Francisco’s Marina District.
Led by Assistant Fire Chief Frank Blackburn, the San Francisco Fire Department pumped seawater straight from San Francisco Bay to stop the fire.
Since 2010, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has received and spent $1.44 billion in earthquake safety bonds. But they have done nothing to expand AWSS, the City’s high-pressure water system that uses seawater to fight fires.