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Council weighs wildfire risks, water infrastructure and community steps after Southern California blazes
Summary
Council held a broad discussion on wildfire preparedness covering Tucson Water’s design for fire protection, Tucson Fire Department staffing and wildland capacity, fireworks enforcement, defensible space measures, and invasive species management.
The council on Feb. 19 examined Tucson’s readiness for wildfire events after recent destructive fires in Southern California, with presentations from Tucson Water and the Tucson Fire Department and questions from council members.
Tucson Water explained the system’s historic role as a fire‑protection infrastructure and described storage capacity and pressure zones that are designed to meet fire‑flow requirements (examples cited: four‑hour duration flows of 1,500 gpm for residential and up to 3,000 gpm for commercial protection). The department reported more than 60 storage tanks and roughly 300 million…
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