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

A resident drove over what firefighters describe as a lifeline: the hose supplying water from a fire hydrant, KCTV reports. Firefighters say the hose got caught underneath the driver’s car.

Family friend Al Tanner told the station that Shaw was found on Wednesday, Jan. 8, on the street near his home, holding onto a water hose ... near the Eaton Fire have also had to take their ...

So Andrew pulled the heavy metal pump over to the edge of the pool and affixed a green hose that snaked down into the ash- and debris-muddied water to one opening and a long blue fire hose to another.