As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas, public water systems are often unable to meet the firefighting demand ...

While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large blazes currently ravaging the Los Angeles area.

That being said, McDonald muses, "there are ways you could go down to the Home Depot and buy a bunch of pipe and set ... hope your perimeter fire-fighting sprinkler system will never have to ...

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...

“We’re fighting a wildfire with urban water systems ... so quickly in a dense area, that pipe bursts made it hard to maintain enough water pressure for fire fighting efforts.

It was the pipe that feeds water into the fire suppression system, Connor said. Water flooded the conference center, as well as the former restaurant area. Because of electrical damage ...