Newsom orders investigation of Los Angeles fire hydrant failures. Firefighters reported being unable to access water from hydrants as they defended homes and businesses in Pacific Palisades.

A T-Mobile building in Los Angeles was seen partially caving in after it was flooded by a sheared fire hydrant on Sunday afternoon. The L.A. City Fire Department said it received a call just ...

In Los Angeles County, private hydrants must be painted red to distinguish them from yellow public hydrants, and the 2023 city of Los Angeles fire code stipulates that a “specific action or ...

A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, as it burns a structure in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Capt. Kevin Easton and his firefighting team had already spent hours battling an out-of-control fire sweeping through Los Angeles’s Pacific Palisades area, leaving gutted homes in its wake.

A fire hydrant in Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles is coated in fire retardant during the January 2025 wildfires. Officials said the Los Angeles Fire Department did not report nearly 1,000 damaged ...

Adam VanGerpen, a Los Angeles fire captain and a spokesman for the agency, did say that the 2.5-inch hydrants had not generally presented a major problem for firefighters. Image Wharf hydrants ...

“These fire hydrant thefts are yet another sign of how crime is out of control in Los Angeles County,” said Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman to The Center Square before his ...

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 ...

Put that with the local resources alone, 200 fire engines connected to a fire hydrant, trying to get water out of a pipe at the same time. The pipes are only designed to flow so much water," he said.

A T-Mobile building in Los Angeles was seen partially caving in after it was flooded by a sheared fire hydrant on Sunday afternoon. The L.A. City Fire Department said it received a call just ...