Could balloon-like water tanks help California prepare for fires? Some call an energy company’s “Water Trees” a game-changing ...

One of the biggest challenges is ensuring enough water flows to enough hydrants while demand is high and damaged pipes may be ...

each with a storage capacity of about a million gallons. These tanks help maintain enough pressure for water to flow from fire hydrants in uphill areas — but the pressure had decreased due to ...

The way to do that, Terruzzin believes, would be to repurpose a low-cost water-storage ... tanks called Water Trees, which he believes could have reduced the damage in the fire.