You probably see them so often that you don’t even notice they are there. Fire hydrants are one of those things that aren’t interesting until you need them, but then they are of paramount importance.

El Paso County Commissioner Sergio Coronado has raised concerns about non-functional fire hydrants in outlying areas of the ...

When two homes burned Aug. 7 in a neighborhood south of Springfield, there weren't any fire hydrants nearby — a relatively uncommon situation for Eugene-Springfield area firefighters. The fire started ...

When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little usable water from a nearby hydrant. The hydrant is part of an older ...

A truck parked in front of a fire hydrant as Boston firefighters battled an early-morning blaze Wednesday forced crews to access water from an alternate source.Crews were called at 2 a.m. to the fire ...

If you park in front of a fire hydrant, you might get stuck with broken windows A California fire department recently sent a message to drivers who park in front of fire hydrants: don’t do it. You ...

Firefighters were still responding to a massive 4-alarm fire at a Camden scrapyard in February when Eastern Metal Recycling began to share what it believed caused the incident: a lithium-ion battery.