The fire hydrant system in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood of Plum, where a house explosion killed six people in August, is not adequate for fighting a single fully engulfed house fire, according to a ...

David Whitman began selling private fire hydrant systems in 2022. He runs his company, Brushfire Battle Systems, out of his South Pasadena home. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Before evacuating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little ...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. — Using a color-coded map of the city of Marble Hill, Woodland Fire Protection District Chief Calvin Troxell showed the Marble Hill Board of Aldermen how inadequate the city's hydrant ...

I never thought about the close relationship between fire departments and water providers, but they really go hand-in-hand. Most of us take it for granted that when a fire starts burning, there ...

A fire hydrant is a fire hydrant, right? It is in the ground, connected to a pipe, and it will give us as much water as we need when we need it, and it is fine to take whatever flow we need from it, ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A hydrant that did not work for crews fighting a stubborn structure fire in July apparently wasn’t designed to do that. The hydrant, it turns out, is a “service hydrant” used for ...

GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind. (Inside INdiana Business) — Grissom Air Reserve Base has completed a $35 million project that has been nine years in the making. The base says its new fuel hydrant ...

Before evacuating from her Malibu home the day the Palisades fire erupted, Cassandra Riera soaked the plants in her yard, moved flammable patio furniture inside and hooked up her private fire hydrant ...