Demand for water to fight the Palisades Fire led the community’s water tanks to temporarily dry up. The Los Angeles Fire Department said that hampered firefighting efforts. Experts said the area’s ...
An engineer who lost his home in the Palisades fire says a new system of low-cost inflatable reservoirs could ensure more water is available to fight fires. The balloon-like plastic tanks, called ...
As thousands of homes started to burn across Los Angeles on Jan. 7, fire hydrants stopped working. The rapid spread of flames in winds up to 100 miles per hour was happening too quickly for water ...
As wildfire tore through the canyons of Pacific Palisades, firefighters waged a desperate battle to save homes and lives. Seventeen miles east in downtown L.A., dozens of officials huddled around ...
Mammoth wildfires put unprecedented demands on local water agencies in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday and Wednesday, dwarfing available resources needed to battle the flames. Janisse Quiñones, CEO of ...
Fighting the deadly wildfires in Southern California requires a coordinated team effort – from tactical crews attacking hazardous hot spots on the ground to planes and helicopters providing fire ...
BATAVIA — The county Planning Board Thursday night discussed the site plan for a 500,000-gallon fire water storage tank at the Science & Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park site in Alabama. The ...