Blocked fire hydrant reports in the Big Apple skyrocketed last year as fire officials continue to blame slowed response to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little ...

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 ...

An older model fire hydrant at the corner of Supernova Drive and Franklin Lakes Boulevard is seen Friday in Franklin. Indiana American Water is warning of unauthorized use of the city’s fire hydrants, ...

Residents of Harmar’s Werner Camp neighborhood, tucked along the Allegheny River, have great views of the water and little traffic. But it’s what they don’t have that should be of concern: fire ...

A broken hydrant at the scene may have hampered firefighting efforts. A city engineer suggested that the hydrant may have been damaged when a wrench was turned clockwise instead of counter-clockwise ...

A sure sign of spring might be flowing outside your home starting Wednesday. Streets will be soaked, but it won't be thanks to Mother Nature — fire hydrants are getting flushed. One by one, along just ...

"I wanted to help people out and be a hero," the boy said while speaking to a local news outlet Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously ...

Six businesses were destroyed Thursday as a massive fire tore through a row of Bronx stores — and the FDNY’s response was hampered by a brazen motorist who parked his car by a nearby fire hydrant, ...