As the fires ravaging Pacific Palisades expanded and started moving toward his home in the Malibu Hills last week, Brent Woodworth connected two 100-foot hoses to his personal fire hydrant and put ...

SAN DIEGO – Assemblyman Carl DeMaio (R-San Diego) sent a letter Jan. 14 to the Director of the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services (OES) asking for a situation assessment of water storage ...

As Los Angeles battles multiple fast-moving wildfires, emergency officials have faced a nightmare situation: fire hydrants running ... within the overall hydrant system, further straining the ...

Firefighters are fighting a three-alarm fire Saturday night at a recycling plant in Dundalk.Baltimore County fire officials said firefighters are battling a large building fire at Owl Metals ...

They could spray seawater directly on coastal homes or run hoses ashore to connect to fire hydrant systems ... solvents and other materials in homes, buildings and vehicles –that have ...

The Palisades Fire, the most destructive ... utility says its water system was pushed past its limit from the massive blazes. Newsom has also acknowledged that local hydrant systems are not ...

Firefighters are battling a second-alarm fire at a vacant building in south Sacramento Thursday, officials said.According to the Sacramento Fire Department, emergency crews responded to the fire ...

Classifying the incident as a 5-alarm fire, the fire department said firefighters worked to search and remove people from the building. The fire was "extremely dangerous" for firefighters ...

RICHMOND, Va. — A building on Patterson Avenue had to be evacuated after a fire broke out Friday afternoon in Richmond's Near West End. Firefighters were called to the office building in the ...

The adaptive, self-adjusting shading system "Solar Gate" supports the climate control of buildings. Credit: ICD/IntCDC, University of Stuttgart. Scientists at the universities of Stuttgart and ...