Castaneda thought about those hydrants while watching coverage of the L.A. wildfires. At one point, so many fire hydrants were being used, the system lost water pressure. “The catastrophe was ...

Water reserves were located at a lower elevation, which made it difficult to refill the high-elevation tanks. Quinones said fire hydrants are built to extinguish fires from one or two houses at ...

With a number of theories circulating on why the fires broke out, many people were shocked to discover that the fire hydrants across Los Angeles actually ran out of water whilst firefighters ...

Some fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles ran dry this week after the wildfires overwhelmed the local water system. The problem unleashed a flurry of criticism, including ...

Some fire hydrants ran dry in LA due to enormous water demand and infrastructure problems. President-elect Trump wrongly blamed a separate debate over water from northern California. Here's what ...

Some fire hydrants ran dry in LA due to enormous water demand and infrastructure problems. President-elect Trump wrongly blamed a separate debate over water from northern California. Here's what you ...

Gavin Newsom demanded an independent investigation into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) after firefighters faced a nightmare situation: fire hydrants that had run out of water.

It's part of a bigger debate over water supplies during massive wildfires like those in the Los Angeles area, including the use of fire hydrants. Following the wildfires in Southern California ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into the causes behind the loss of water pressure to fire hydrants, which hampered firefighting efforts in Los Angeles. Newsom says: ‘We need ...

Water then flows by gravity into homes and fire hydrants. Officials said the storage tanks and the pumping systems that feed them could not keep pace with the demand as the fire raced from one ...