The family in Los Angeles employed a cost-effective method to transport water from their pool in an attempt to safeguard their home from wildfires.

The family's swimming pool, pump, generator, fire hose, and sprinkler were used in their system.

The family in Los Angeles employed a cost-effective method to transport water from their pool in an attempt to safeguard their home from wildfires.
The family in Los Angeles employed a cost-effective method to transport water from their pool in an attempt to safeguard their home from wildfires.

The Palisades Highlands family in Los Angeles saved their house from the wildfires using their swimming pool, generator, sprinkler, pump, and fire hose.

Cali_._love, an Instagram user, wrote that the system is "easy to operate and budget-friendly," while sharing a video of them using it to water their hillside home's vegetation.

"I am certain that this generator, pump, pool, sprinkler, and fire hose saved our family home. My dad was so determined to have one for all the neighbors, and he was right as he has been many times in his career."

To drain two swimming pools, they ran their equipment for 10 hours over two days, soaking the plants and their roof. Unfortunately, when they returned the next day, they found that the bottom half of the palm tree had burned along with the entire hillside.

Helicopter over wildfires
A Los Angeles family shared how they used their swimming pool, a generator, sprinkler, pump and a fire house to save their house from the wildfires, which have destroyed thousands of homes.  (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)

"If this had not existed, there would be no house and possibly no neighbors. We were fortunate. We were ready. Yes, there were things we would have done differently," they wrote.

They were determined to promote their system for swimming pool safety after their house did not catch fire.

They said even without a pool there are other water storage solutions.

Photos showing homeowners' pool pump system
The system is "very budget friendly and easy to operate," Instagram user Cali_._love  wrote along with a video showing them pumping water out of their pool and spraying it on vegetation around their hillside home.   (cali_._love/Instagram)

"We encountered a lot of threatening embers and live fire while doing our rounds on the neighbors' homes and our dear family friends. It was a challenge to put them all out, but we did the best we could with buckets and their pools. If they had this, we would have been 100x more efficient."

A home destroyed by the fires
A home reduced to ashes during the aftermath of the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025.  (Michael Nigro/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Anyone interested in safeguarding their homes could witness a demonstration of the system.

by Brie Stimson

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