The fire hydrant system in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood of Plum, where a house explosion killed six people in August, is not adequate for fighting a single fully engulfed house fire, according to a ...

David Whitman began selling private fire hydrant systems in 2022. He runs his company, Brushfire Battle Systems, out of his South Pasadena home. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Before evacuating ...

When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little usable water from a nearby hydrant. The hydrant is part of an older ...

Before evacuating from her Malibu home the day the Palisades fire erupted, Cassandra Riera soaked the plants in her yard, moved flammable patio furniture inside and hooked up her private fire hydrant ...

When I ask fire officers across the country about their small towns’ fire hydrant and pressurized water supply system flow capabilities, their answers are often unclear, ranging from “marginal at best ...

Panjab University has spent Rs 29.35 lakh on the installation of the fire hydrant system in the administrative block of the university but failed to notice that the basic equipment to make it ...

Last year, I shared some tips on how to deal with common problems the hydrant firefighter faces when forward-laying a supply line into a fire scene. Following that article, I got some calls and ...