Firefighters from Oregon spray water over a hillside in the aftermath of the Palisades Fire on Jan. 12. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — The city of Los Angeles’ electric and water utility was hit with a lawsuit faulting it for not supplying enough water to fight the biggest fire still raging in the second-largest U.S. metropolis.

Property owners in the city’s tony Pacific Palisades neighborhood sued the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest municipal utility in the U.S. The complaint appeared late Monday on the Los Angeles Superior Court’s website, but hasn’t yet been fully processed by the court.

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