While firefighters were fighting the flames at a raging house fire in Westfield on Wednesday, they found multiple fire ...

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.

When fire hydrants ran dry during the Pacific Palisades fire, it sparked a wave of anger and even misinformation. Here’s how L.A.’s water system works and what we know about why the hydrants ran out.

Some were completely dry. The failure of the hydrants was due to reliance on a system designed to fight one house fire at a time, not an apocalyptic moment when hundreds of homes are burning ...

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.

Some hydrants ran dry, hindering the fight ... burned so quickly in a dense area, that pipe bursts made it hard to maintain enough water pressure for fire fighting efforts. In the 2021 Marshall ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – As firefighters battled the now nearly 16,000-acre Palisades Fire Tuesday, officials say the massive demand for water led to crews dealing with dozens of “dry” hydrants ...

Jan. 10, 2025 Park cited The Times’ reporting on how fire hydrants ran dry in some areas of Pacific Palisades, hampering firefighting efforts, and how the reservoir, which could have provided ...

Trump seized on the moment to blame Newsom for the dry fire hydrants. In a post on his Truth ... lives burned so quickly in a dense area, that pipe bursts made it hard to maintain enough water ...

Something this big and this fast that you kind of just wiped out the whole town was something that I personally and I think *** lot of people from around here never saw coming. Unrelenting ...