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

As fire hydrants went dry while crews battled flames in Pacific Palisades, Donald Trump pointed the finger at California Gov.

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

If you want to run your sprinklers during a fire, you can," said David ... a home and a powerful, controlled water source, Wittasek said. "Public hydrants are often too far away to be effective ...

Eagle County is at risk of experiencing a large-scale wildfire. “We’ve always been and we probably always will be,” said Hugh ...

The next day, when the hydrant’s water pressure dropped ... He turned on his diesel-powered generator, got the sprinklers on the roof ready, wet down the house’s exterior and hooked up two fire hoses ...

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 ...