City Utilities manages nearly 9,000 hydrants in its system. Officials say finding out when one is damaged is crucial to ...

The City of Aiken conducted fire hydrant flushing beginning Jan. 4 to test volume and pressure. The flushing was not related ...

Los Angeles officials said on Jan. 8 that some fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades area lost water supply due to high demand on the system from the Palisades fire. Water remained available to ...

Fire hydrants have been around for about 180 years and have dramatically enhanced firefighting capabilities. They have become so prevalent that he only time many people notice them is when they are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — The cool spray from ...

The summer is just four days old and we have our first heat wave. The Lehigh Valley, along with other central and eastern parts of the country, is under an extreme heat warning. If you purchase a ...

The charge may be different depending on where you live, but in Kentucky, utilities that allow fire departments to use their hydrants can then pass that cost along to their customers. Susan Lancho ...

On the morning of Jan. 7, a firefighter near the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles observed a 10-acre brush fire along a ridgeline and sent out a warning. "Just to give you guys a heads up ...

In the summer of 1987, Boston’s fire hydrants were the go-to solution to beat the heat. With a wrench and a little elbow grease, residents uncapped dozens of the city’s 13,000 hydrants, transforming ...

As Los Angeles battles multiple fast-moving wildfires, emergency officials have faced a nightmare situation: fire hydrants running out of water. “How do you fight a fire with no water?” Ryan Babroff, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- In the middle of a deadly, costly and out of control fire fight, many crews responding to the Pacific Palisades fire have been without the greatest tool in extinguishing ...

Officials evacuated Alpha Project’s Bridge Shelter, a massive gray tent near 16th Street and Newton Avenue on the edge of ...