Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large ...

The Palisades fire first took hold in a neighborhood where many hydrants had only a single small outlet for firefighters to ...

A resident ran over the supply hose, which then caught on the vehicle's frame and was pulled from the fire hydrant, the group said. It then struck and injured the firefighter. The group is using ...

Firefighters battled a townhouse fire in Flushing, Queens, complicated by a frozen hydrant and resulting in three injuries.