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 ...

When fire hydrants ran dry, the L.A. Department of Water and Power struggled to get water where needed. The utility's ...

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,' ...

Power losses also left area water pumps useless for hours during the 2017 Thomas fire. Pumps are needed to refill high-elevation tanks to maintain water pressure. “I thought, after the Thomas ...

Some people are asking why crews had to shuttle water to fight a fire Monday night at a home along the 3900 block of West ...

"Those tanks help with the pressure on the fire hydrants and the ... a board member of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. "There is no connection between the delta smelt ...

On behalf of the water managers across the state, we extend our deepest sympathy to all those affected by this catastrophe.

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.

The crux of this transport system is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a sensitive marshland region where two of the state’s ...