Bitterly cold temperatures hindered firefighters’ efforts to douse a Brooklyn house fire early Wednesday, with frozen ...

Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish ...

Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the ...

BAY CITY, MI — Frozen fire hydrants made for a difficult time in firefighters’ efforts to battle a house fire in Bay City, a blaze that claimed the life of two family pets.

Our reporter caught up with a number of people who had prepared for wildfires with built-in systems. “I’m sleeping with one ...

The Sweetwater Authority water district will consider a more thorough inspection of its fire hydrants and fire suppression ...

Firefighters deal with frozen fire hydrants to battle massive fire at commercial building in Gastonia, North Carolina ...

Some were completely dry. The failure of the hydrants was due to reliance on a system designed to fight one house fire at a time, not an apocalyptic moment when hundreds of homes are burning ...

It’s a headline no one would want to see: Fire hydrants being used to fight the Palisades Fire were running dry. The fast-moving fire tested the L.A. Department of Water and Power’s municipal ...

Quinones said fire hydrants are built to extinguish fires from one or two houses at once, not hundreds of them. Kearns co-authored a report in 2021, discussing potential solutions to California ...

When nature calls for help, sometimes the tools we rely on let us down. This situation in Southern California is a stark ...