The best garden hose nozzles help control water flow from a gentle mist to a powerful jet for watering plants, washing cars, ...

The Hellam Fire Company responded to a house fire caused by improperly discarded fireworks on Independence Day.

That fire flow is a valid, present-day starting point for staffing to get water on the fire and to complete the other tactics that are necessary to achieve a coordinated fire attack in a typical ...

Even if the fire can be contained and extinguished using a 1¾-inch handline, if the hose stretch is going to be in excess 300 feet, a leader line set up should be utilized where a 2½-inch ...

A mother and her son, a UCLA freshman, fought to save their house in Pacific Palisades, using a hose to keep the flames at bay while hundreds of their neighbors' homes burned.

Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy told his brother and friends in Altadena -- a town he grew up in located 14 miles from downtown LA -- that they’d be “fine” when the Eaton ...

The fire department recommends letting the water flow from the hose for a few minutes so it cools off before spraying on people or animals. Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect ...

The captain would really like for you to be able to open up another valve and get enough water to that deck gun to put out the fire. If the weak link in the water delivery chain is the size of the ...

Water trucks are sometimes called tankers or water tenders due to their seemingly singular purpose in the fire fighting arena. As for how much water these vehicles can transport to the scene of an ...

Abstract. A robust tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS) based system is developed and deployed to make real-time water-vapor concentration measurements in quasi-controlled live-fire ...