When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little usable water from a nearby hydrant. The hydrant is part of an older ...

As wildfires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, crews battling the Palisades blaze faced an additional burden: Scores of fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out. “The ...

Two Fayette County homes 4 miles apart went up in flames in a 10-month period in 2021 and 2022 while firefighters reportedly struggled to draw water from nearby fire hydrants. Residents of those homes ...

Residents of Harmar’s Werner Camp neighborhood, tucked along the Allegheny River, have great views of the water and little traffic. But it’s what they don’t have that should be of concern: fire ...