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 ...

A Jan. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) claims to show a costly and empty rainbow-painted fire hydrant across the street from a row of homes engulfed in flames. “No water ...

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 ...