Spencer Pratt & Heidi Montag Sue City Of L.A. & DWP Over Water Issues During Wildfires

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Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are suing the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power after losing their home in the Palisades Fire last week.

The veteran reality stars of are alleging failures that make it hard for firefighters to battle in the rapidly moving flames. “The Palisades Fire was an inescapable and unavoidable consequence of the egregious failure of the water supply system servicing areas in and around Pacific Palisades, including having an empty water reservoir,” according to the couple’s attorney, Peter McNulty. “This failure was a substantial factor in causing my clients and others to suffer enormous losses.

Filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, the couple’s inverse-condemnation suit states that the Santa Ynez Reservoir, which services devastated Pacific Palisades, was offline before the fire started on January 7, hampering the ability of firefighters to deal with the flames.

The filing alleges that given the reservoir’s condition, hydrants in the Palisades failed after three tanks — each holding 1 million gallons of water — went dry within a span of 12 hours.