The Palisades fire first took hold in a neighborhood where many hydrants had only a single small outlet for firefighters to ...

Before evacuating from her Malibu home the day the Palisades fire erupted, Cassandra Riera soaked the plants in her yard, ...

“Yesterday, just in California alone, there were about 30 orders,” Barry McConaghey, a former firefighter who owns ...

While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large blazes currently ravaging the Los Angeles area.

A massive fire broke out at the Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre in Electronics City, causing estimated damages of Rs 140 crore. Suspected to be caused by improper handling of flammable solvents ...

Crews opened up a fire hydrant, connected a hose to it and diverted the water that was running through the shut gate valve to flow out of the water main instead of off the property of the ...

As the fires ravaging Pacific Palisades expanded and started moving toward his home in the Malibu Hills last week, Brent Woodworth connected two 100-foot hoses to his personal fire hydrant and put ...

The first wave of evacuation orders were lifted Thursday afternoon for several neighborhoods in the Palisades Fire zone. Some of the evacuated areas have been unpopulated since the fire started on ...

As Los Angeles battles multiple fast-moving wildfires, emergency officials have faced a nightmare situation: fire hydrants running ... pressure within the overall hydrant system, further straining ...

THEY RAN INTO TROUBLE, THOUGH, WHEN A FIRE HYDRANT WAS FROZEN. THE COLD WEATHER DEFINITELY HAMPERED US WITH THIS. WE HAD A PROBLEM WITH A FROZEN HYDRANT, BUT CREWS WERE READY FOR IT. THEY WERE ...