One retired firefighter is offering a solution to make aerial firefighting missions easier. A Heli-Hydrant near San Diego was used nearly 40 times last fall, and officials from across Southern ...

A group of senior citizens suing the city of L.A. over the Palisades fire includes a 93-year-old woman who escaped the Holocaust and a former Navy pilot undergoing cancer treatment.

Mayor Karen Bass foisted blame for the city’s mishandling of January’s deadly Los Angeles wildfires and their aftermath on everyone but herself.

The reality is that public water systems aren’t designed to fight wildfires, as High Country News noted in this January 2025 article. To be clear, and as Denver7 highlighted in January, public water ...

But the city’s water pipes, storage tanks, and fire hydrants could not keep up with the unprecedented needs of firefighters.

Researchers with the LA Fire HEALTH Study released results ... first by closing roughly 4,800 open connections at fire hydrants and destroyed homes to restore water pressure, then continuously ...

According to LADWP, Los Angeles has a single water system, meaning the water supplied to your home is the same water that feeds fire hydrants. "We believe that our system performed above and ...

HICKORY, N.C. — Neighbors in Hickory are expressing their frustrations due to firefighters testing fire hydrants. According to the Hickory Record, the testing has caused the water to turn brown ...