Some 20% of hydrants failed during the fight to save the Pacific Palisades from LA’s massive fire on Jan. 7. Here’s how other ...

As the wildfires and uproar from the response to the blazes continue in Los Angeles, the city has had past plans to fix the water flow — which went dry during recent firefights — but many of the ...

He is chief commercial and product officer for the company Energy Vault, where he helped invent inflatable tanks called Water Trees, which he believes could have reduced the damage in the fire.

A plan to build a new connection to draw water from ... “to improve fire-flow and reliability” by replacing two “aging and severely deteriorated 50,000-gallon” tanks in Fernwood with ...

Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure in areas where hydrants ran dry during the Palisades fire as 'leak prone,' ...

Fire hydrants in Los Angeles are running out of water as firefighters work to extinguish the wildfires. The speed of the fires in the area has depleted water supplies in storage tanks and pumping ...

Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also unprepared for the age of urban wildfires.

By 3 a.m. Wednesday, the tank was empty. “The fire department was using ... the DWP called on the MWD to help, and water was soon flowing through a backup connection near where Sunset Boulevard ...

Maria do Céu Silva was hailed as a hero after using her house's water tank to rescue the residents of Nodeirinho, next to the IC8 motorway, which was badly hit by the fire. The idea, Ms Silva ...

(Courtesy photo) “Those tanks help with the pressure on the fire hydrants in the hills of Palisades,” Quiñones explained, and “because we were pushing so much water in our trunk line ...