A T-Mobile building in Los Angeles was seen partially caving in after it was flooded by a sheared fire hydrant on Sunday afternoon. The L.A. City Fire Department said it received a call just before 3 ...

We're all familiar with bright red fire hydrants, the color of which has become synonymous with them, fire trucks, and the hats many fire chiefs and firefighters wear. You may even know what it means ...

Nearly a year after the devastating fires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, residents and experts say the water problems that hindered firefighting leave several lessons.

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 ...

A driver was fined a whopping $4,000 for allegedly parking in front of a fire hydrant and blocking New York City firefighters during a fatal blaze. Two people died in the Feb. 12 fire on Anthony ...

For 22 years, from Feb. 18, 2001 to Feb. 23, 2023, a 40-foot-tall silver sculpture of a fire hydrant towered over Taylor Street in downtown Columbia, tilted at a slight angle as if it had just been ...

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Officials in Hot Springs have been working to repair a fire hydrant that the fire crew did not know was damaged until they needed it. The issue led us to look into what exactly ...

ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Crews from Pennsylvania American Water replaced a fire hydrant on Dillon Road after it failed as firefighters tried to use it during a large house fire. “It’s extremely ...

Firefighters were still responding to a massive 4-alarm fire at a Camden scrapyard in February when Eastern Metal Recycling began to share what it believed caused the incident: a lithium-ion battery.

Complaints about parked cars blocking fire hydrants have more than doubled since the start of the pandemic — with critics blaming the surge on bike lanes and even a lack of cops, records show. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Inside, a destroyed home ...

A Jan. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) claims to show a costly and empty rainbow-painted fire hydrant across the street from a row of homes engulfed in flames. “No water, but look how ...