The traditional fire hydrant, that innocuous little cast metal tube with a hat, is one of those everyday objects that is so commonplace most people tend to overlook them. For over 100 years this life ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little usable water from a nearby hydrant. The hydrant is part of an older ...

When I ask fire officers across the country about their small towns’ fire hydrant and pressurized water supply system flow capabilities, their answers are often unclear, ranging from “marginal at best ...

Fire hydrant flushing will occur between the hours of 7:30 PM and 5:00 AM to minimize customer impacts. This routine testing program, which occurs every three years, involves flushing water through ...

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, ...

The town of Apache will shut off water to the entire system Tuesday to allow utility crews to replace a fire hydrant on North ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — A new Type III Hydrant Fuel System became operational Oct. 11 at Robert Gray Army Airfield at West Fort Cavazos. The facility is government owned/contract operated by Maytag ...

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 ...