As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas, public water systems are often unable to meet the firefighting demand ...

A sprinkler system employing automatic sprinklers attached to a piping system containing water and connected to a water supply so that water discharges immediately from sprinklers opened by heat from ...

Why did water hydrants run dry in the midst of a conflagration? City officials stressed that the shortage was due to low ...

As wildfires roar into residential neighborhoods, firefighters in California and elsewhere are finding that water systems can ...

As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...

Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also ...

Mecklenburg County advises property owners to winterize fire sprinkler systems to prevent freezing and potential damage.

Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish ...

By the time firefighters entered the building, the fire had been extinguished by the building's sprinkler system. PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. - Port Washington firefighters were dispatched to the ...

Mr Atkins is director of M&P Fire Protection which maintained the dry riser in Grenfell Tower and the sprinkler systems of surrounding buildings. He told BBC London: "If they'd had a sprinkler ...