The Palisades fire first took hold in a neighborhood where many hydrants had only a single small outlet for firefighters to ...
Assemblymember Steve Bennett is proposing legislation to better protect water supplies during a wildfire. Here's why.
Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.
Firefighters in Pacific Palisades and Altadena have repeatedly been hampered by low water pressure and dry hydrants, ...
Los Angeles officials said a "tremendous" demand — four times normal levels — during the Palisades fire caused some hydrants ...
As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas, public water systems are often unable to meet the firefighting demand ...
As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...
Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also unprepared for the age of urban wildfires.
The dry hydrants prompted a swirl of criticism ... John Fisher, a retired battalion chief with San Diego Fire-Rescue, said California is among the best in the world at ensuring communities share ...
As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas such as Boulder, Colorado and Lahaina, Hawaii, public water systems are often unable to meet the demand of fighting these large fires.
But a Newsom spokesperson and California water policy experts said that plan is unrelated to water in fire hydrants in Los Angeles. Newsom on Friday ordered an investigation into the cause of lost ...