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 a fire site. 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, San Francisco.

Now let’s ask Mayor Daniel Lurie:

Why is your home protected with the best high-pressure fire hydrants and seawater...

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-size 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.

AP Photo/Bob Pepping

A fire hero who fought City Hall till the end

Vote No on Prop A

And make sure San Francisco has Equal Fire Protection For All.

  • Proposition A is an Earthquake Safety Emergency Response (ESER) capital bond that will request more money to improve San Francisco’s water system.

    • Since 2010, City Hall has received three ESER bonds and spent a total of $1.44 billion.

    • The City is only planning to improve EFWS—the same drinking-water system that failed three times during the Pacific Palisades Fire in 2025.

    • EFWS is a fragile, low-pressure system that constantly breaks. It is not built to function at the level needed to fight massive firestorms.

    • During the next major earthquake, at least 50 fires are projected to break out simultaneously due to ruptured gas and electric lines.

    • Broken gas and electric lines are what triggered the Marina District firestorm during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

    • San Francisco has AWSS, a high-pressure water system that uses seawater to fight fires.

    • In 1989, led by Assistant Fire Chief Frank Blackburn, the San Francisco Fire Department used AWSS to stop the Marina District firestorm after the Loma Prieta earthquake.

    • In 2010, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom took control of AWSS away from the Fire Department and gave it to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

    • Since 2010—despite asking for and receiving $1.44 billion in earthquake bonds—City Hall has not done a single thing to improve AWSS.

  • Today, Mayor Daniel Lurie is referring to the EFWS system as if it is capable of the same

    The Department of Public Works webpage refers to EFWS as “(formerly known as AWSS)”.

    The Department of Public Works is displaying a photo of an EFWS pipe on its ESER Bond webpage.

  • Ask Mayor Lurie why he would promote EFWS as capable when it is the same system that failed during the Palisades Fire.

    Ask Mayor Lurie why his house is protected by AWSS, but two thirds of San Francisco is not.

    Ask Friends Of Sunset Dunes spokesperson Lucas Lux if he knows what living on landfill means.

    And last but not least: Vote No On Prop A.

    Vote No on giving more money to a City Hall that has been ignoring our safety for the last 16 years.

    Vote No on enabling a city government that would use deceptive language

AP Photo/Bob Pepping

A fire hero who never gave up

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