Fire hydrants in Los Angeles are running out of water as firefighters work to extinguish the wildfires. The speed of the fires in the area has depleted water supplies in storage tanks and pumping ...

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Los Angeles' water boss who makes $750,000 a year couldn't quite explain why fire hydrants have run dry during the disastrous wildfires in a bumbling video. During a press conference Wednesday, ...

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As wildfires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, crews battling the Palisades blaze faced an additional burden: Scores of fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out.

Firefighters struggled to control the Palisades fire as it tore through neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades earlier this month. Mark Abramson for The New York Times By Mitch Smith, Eden Weingart and ...

YORBA LINDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Yorba Linda Water District celebrated today the dedication of a new helicopter hydrant at the ...

As flames quickly engulfed neighborhoods in the Los Angeles County community of Pacific Palisades, the firefight was hampered by several major issues, including wind speeds and water pressure issues.

Each hydrant should be located in an area where engines can easily pull in to use the hydrant and pull back out, reducing the time engines spend away from the fire, Shallow said.<P> Before the ...

The city of Durango is launching a program to allow water operators to fill their tanks using designated fire hydrants after a similar but laxer program ended on Friday because hydrants kept getting ...