putting the bulk of the pressure on the fire hydrant system. “We saw four times the demands of water that we’ve ever seen in the system,” Quiñones said. “We opened every valve available ...

Three children, aged 5, 6, and 9, and a 40-year-old man were taken to the hospital after crews responded to a fire at a home on Riverside Drive around 3:12 a.m Saturday. The six-year-old girl, who is ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Six firefighters were injured while battling a structure fire Thursday afternoon in Nelson County. Ted Shields, chief of the Northeast County Fire Department, said the ...

Some fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades ran dry ... residence so that we can continue to have that water supply for the hydrant system," he said.

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 ...

The video shows power lines running through Eaton Canyon arcing in the high winds on Tuesday just after 6 p.m. Within minutes, it sparked a fire that exploded in size. Cal Fire has a copy of the ...

A federal judge has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by a Black former fire recruit against Clark County Fire District 6. According to the complaint, filed in September 2023 in U.S ...

Fire broke out in the kitchen of the restaurant at Harborview Hotel in Port Washington on Sunday, Jan. 12. Emergency responders saw spoke billowing from the rear of the hotel. By the time ...

A firefighter in Pacific Palisades tapping into a fire hydrant on Tuesday as the Palisades fire burned through the area.Credit...Philip Cheung for The New York Times Supported by By Tim Arango ...

A brush fire on Tuesday set off one of the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history: the Palisades fire. By Thursday evening, nearly 20,000 acres of land and thousands of structures had been ...

JAPAN issued a tsunami advisory after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the country on Monday. The quake was at a depth of 23 miles and mainly hit the southwestern Kyushu region, said the ...

Officials in Los Angeles previously blamed "tremendous demand" for fire hydrants running dry amid the devastating fires Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She first began ...