Santa Rosa. Paradise. Boulder County. Lahaina. Los Angeles. All are places that have shown that American cities and their water systems weren t built to withstand wildfire, experts say.

Fire experts emphasize the need to replace highly flammable trees like Mexican fan palms and eucalyptus with fire-resistant ...

Susan and Winston Salser, both in their 80s, refused to evacuate from their Pacific Palisades home despite being surrounded by the inferno. But thanks to what their son describes as the couple's ...

Complaints about parked cars blocking fire hydrants have more than doubled since the start of the pandemic — with critics ...

Terruzzin envisions some of the Water Trees being placed near fire hydrants, with others arranged in rows where neighborhoods ...

“We found out the pressure off the hydrants was 100 psi, but we needed 200, 300, even 400 psi,” Joe explained. “One of us said, ‘Maybe we should get a firetruck because the pressure out of ...

“After every one of these fires, one of the big questions citizens ask is why didn't the fire hydrants operate,” Bennett said. Hydrants cannot deliver all the water needed during a wildfire ...

Before evacuating from her Malibu home the day the Palisades fire erupted, Cassandra Riera soaked the plants in her yard, ...

Three years ago, she had spent $1,350 on the personal hydrant system and an additional $1,136 for a plumber to install it on the recommendation of her local fire brigade, which had noted that her ...