Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

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

The next day, when the hydrant’s water pressure dropped ... got the sprinklers on the roof ready, wet down the house’s exterior and hooked up two fire hoses to the personal hydrant he had ...

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

WESTFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A lack of water in fire hydrants hindered firefighters from putting out a large house fire in Westfield on Wednesday. Fire engulfs home on Dubois Street in Westfield ...

Fire hydrants have been a staple in American neighborhoods for well over a century, usually fed by city or county water systems. Many systems use the force of gravity to create water pressure.

Hydrants in the Palisades can hold 3 million gallons of water, but the fire that started at 10:30 ... at the same time using gardening hoses and sprinklers as a last-ditch effort to save their ...

Castaneda thought about those hydrants while watching coverage of the L.A. wildfires. At one point, so many fire hydrants were being used, the system lost water pressure. “The catastrophe was ...

As Los Angeles battles multiple fast-moving wildfires, emergency officials have faced a nightmare situation: fire hydrants running out of water. “How do you fight a fire with no water?” ...

Three years ago, she had spent $1,350 on the personal hydrant system and an additional $1,136 for a plumber to install it on the recommendation of her local fire brigade, which had noted that her ...