Los Angeles' municipal utility lacks a common safety procedure that may have kept water pumping to fire hydrants during an intentional power shutoff, though President Biden said the outage caused the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Sunday, Nov. 9, four area fire departments trained together on a pump apparatus that allows firetrucks to pull water from ...

Cal Fire personnel, Pioneer Fire Chief David Whitt and members of the Pioneer Fire District Fire Safe Council recently ...

The Palisades fire burns along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Tuesday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) As wildfires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, crews battling the Palisades blaze faced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin R. Rosenbloom demonstrates how he would use the personal fire hydrant he installed in his front yard in Malibu. As the fires ...

KASE Pumping Systems was founded as a specialist in carbon fiber composite pump systems for fire trucks and other industrial applications, filling a need in the industry to build lighter weight, ...

Two Pacific Palisades residents trying to rebuild their longtime home destroyed in last year’s historic wildfires were told they must foot the massive bill for a new $35,000 fire hydrant before ...

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 ...

As firefighters battled catastrophic fires in Los Angeles last January, one question reverberated across the country: Where was the water? “I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm, which began Jan. 7 near Los Angeles, here. Before evacuating from her Malibu home the day the Palisades fire erupted, Cassandra ...

About 20 firefighters from the Machias, Machiasport, Marshfield and Jonesboro/Roque Bluffs fire departments gathered on a recent cold, wet Sunday morning to train with a diesel-powered water pump ...