(WHTM) — Lining the streets of many cities and towns are fire hydrants. But how do these hydrants get their water and how do firefighters access them? According to Meyer Fire, there are two types of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Inside, a destroyed home is black and stark, made of tarps and the remains of furniture. Just one look tells you everything: A disaster. But it wasn’t always like that. For two ...

Firefighters struggled to control the Palisades fire as it tore through neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades earlier this month. Mark Abramson for The New York Times By Mitch Smith, Eden Weingart and ...

While privately-owned fire hydrants are their owner's responsibilities, area fire departments say fire codes and insurance requirements are actually what keeps them working. On Aug. 18, firefighters ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) — The city of Grand Junction is conducting its annual fire hydrant maintenance, flushing about half of the city’s more than 1,200 hydrants as part of routine spring work.

Does anyone know how many of our fire hydrants are working and which ones are not? Are they color-coded? Exactly whose job is it to be on top of this? Is this work budgeted?