Think of a community water system as a local coffee shop that usually sells 300 cups a day. A shop like that just couldn't ...

The beloved blessing of the throats on the feast of St. Blaise has outlasted empires, plagues and revolutions — proving that ...

The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, or TERA, is a Lake County-based group dedicated to changing attitudes around intentional fire and sharing knowledge with a new generation of burners.

Richland County Sheriff's Department asked the public for help locating 13-year-old Ka'Niyah Baker ... On Wednesday night, the Columbia-Richland Fire Department was responding to a house fire ...

ALL RIGHT. WE’LL SEE YOU THEN. ETHAN. THANK YOU. WELL, THERE WAS A HOUSE FIRE IN HALIFAX, DAUPHIN COUNTY, THIS MORNING. EMERGENCY DISPATCHERS SAY THIS HAPPENED AROUND 745 ON ARMSTRONG STREET ...

Shutting off water in adjacent areas, the DWP officials ultimately decided, would endanger those neighborhoods and undermine efforts to stanch the fire on its expanding edges, said Anselmo Collins ...

As Los Angeles battles multiple fast-moving wildfires, emergency officials have faced a nightmare situation: fire hydrants running out of water. “How do you fight a fire with no water?” ...

That fire took six weeks to contain. Issues have surfaced in Los Angeles, raising additional concerns for metropolitan areas about the resiliency of water distribution infrastructure, hydrant ...

Victims of the Palisades Fire accused the Los Angeles utility that oversees water delivery of being woefully unprepared to battle the intense inferno that has devastated their ritzy neighborhood ...

Plaintiffs, more than a dozen California residents who all lost their homes during the Palisades fire, said the mammoth water storage unit had been empty for nearly a year because the LADWP ...

claimed LADWP delayed repair work on the water resource to cut costs. "Had the LADWP acted responsibly, the damage caused by the Palisades Fire could have been greatly reduced," the complaint said.

The core strategy is not necessarily to extinguish the fires but to contain them with fire breaks, denying fuel to the flames. Aircraft that drop water and flame retardants can help on the margins ...