The suit, which blames LADWP for damages caused by the devastating fire, amends a complaint filed in March and contains new ...

Overall, hydrants in areas of Los Angeles deemed to have elevated fire risk are twice as likely to contain just a single 2.5-inch outlet as hydrants elsewhere in the city.

As wildfires tore through greater Los Angeles this week, one of the most exasperating obstacles firefighters have come up against are hydrants with no water. In Pacific Palisades, hydrants failed ...

Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish wrongly got blamed.

As wildfires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, crews battling the Palisades blaze faced an additional burden: Scores of fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades had little to no water flowing out ...

Los Angeles officials had filled three one-million gallon tanks to provide as much pressure as possible to feed hydrants in the hilly Pacific Palisades neighborhood, but it wasn't enough.

In Los Angeles County, private hydrants must be painted red to distinguish them from yellow public hydrants, and the 2023 city of Los Angeles fire code stipulates that a “specific action or ...

Kristin Crowley was elevated to Los Angeles fire chief in 2022 at a time of turmoil in a department consumed by complaints of rampant hazing, harassment and discrimination among its 3,400-member ...

LOS ANGELES — As fires raged across Los Angeles on Tuesday, some firefighters battling the Palisades fire reported on internal radio systems that hydrants in Pacific Palisades were coming up dry.

Los Angeles' municipal utility lacks a common safety procedure that may have kept water pumping to fire hydrants during an intentional power shutoff, though President Biden said the outage caused ...

‘No hydrants to be found’ Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said firefighters had tried to be resourceful. “If we don’t have water, we find water. We use water tenders.