To report damage to a fire hydrant, contact your local city or county public works department, water department, or call 311.

The fire hydrant system in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood of Plum, where a house explosion killed six people in August, is not adequate for fighting a single fully engulfed house fire, according to a ...

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 ...

VERNON TOWNSHIP — Meadville Area Water Authority (MAWA) board members spent a portion of their monthly meeting this week discussing the wildfires ravaging parts of Los Angeles and the lessons that can ...

The charge may be different depending on where you live, but in Kentucky, utilities that allow fire departments to use their hydrants can then pass that cost along to their customers. Susan Lancho ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — Town officials have opened an investigation into why water from a Division Street hydrant on Housatonic’s water system was too weak for firefighters to use to put out a stubborn ...

BENTON, La. -- Officials with the Bossier Parish Consolidated Waterworks/Sewerage District No. 1 will inspect the Village Water System's fire hydrants beginning Wednesday and continuing through Friday ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ – Amid reports of discolored, foul-smelling water flowing from faucets in some Piscataway homes, officials at New Jersey American Water sent repair crews into township neighborhoods ...

Before evacuating from her Malibu home the day the Palisades fire erupted, Cassandra Riera soaked the plants in her yard, moved flammable patio furniture inside and hooked up her private fire hydrant ...

Hydrant flushing started downtown Aiken Sunday morning. Over the next week, folks may notice temporary drops in water ...

Hydrants in the hills of the Pacific Palisades ran dry amid one of the worst blazes ever seen in Los Angeles County, forcing firefighters to scramble to draw water from pools and ponds or — even worse ...