While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large ...

A car apparently struck a fire hydrant Monday in Palm Springs, causing a plume of water to shoot high into the air near a major intersection.Videos shot by a Desert Sun journalist shows the car on ...

No air support meant immense pressure on the hydrant system - which simply was not designed for the volume of fire we're ...

In a matter of hours, entire blocks of the Los Angeles area were destroyed, gutting thriving communities and leaving ...

Crews responded to a shed fire on North Liberty Street shortly before 6 a.m. Firefighters quickly learned the hydrant in the area was frozen. Because of the ice they couldn’t use the hydrant.

Q: Dogs and fire department staff may now have more difficulty finding fire hydrants in the snow this winter with them recently being painted a tactical desert sand color. What was wrong with the ...

Demand on the hydrant system was four times higher than ever before. "The number of fire hoses connected to the fire hydrants depleted our tanks in the area, specifically in higher elevations," said ...