Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the ...

Kristin Crowley was elevated to Los Angeles fire chief in 2022 at a time of turmoil in a department consumed by complaints of ...

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

For at least two decades now, the name of the game when it comes to our new climate reality hasn’t just been mitigation; ...

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

Hydrants in the Palisades can hold 3 million gallons of water, but the fire that started at 10:30 Tuesday morning had used it ...

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

As devastating wildfires raged across Los Angeles County this week, firefighters battling the blazes encountered fire ...

Los Angeles' water chief reportedly knew about an empty reservoir and broken fire hydrants months before the deadly wildfires ...

Kristin Crowley, who was elevated to Los Angeles fire chief in 2022, has become a vocal critic of Mayor Karen Bass' handling ...