Improvements to municipal water systems can help avoid a repeat of the Pacific Palisades and other Los Angeles-area fires ...

because a single rig could carry hose, appliances, a small water tank and a centrifugal fire pump that had a rating of as much as 1,000 gpm. The National Board of Fire Underwriters (NBFU ...

Tom Shand covers discharges, controllers, pump styles, intakes and hosebeds in his comprehensive explanation of all that must ...

Andrew Grinsfelder and his mother worked all night to keep their home safe as the Palisades fire raged nearby.

“It’s drinking from a fire hose,” the journalist will reply. Meanwhile, normal people are asking: He doesn’t really think he’s a king, right? I’ve grown tired of saying ...

Tucked beneath snow-capped mountains in Montana, the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory is unlike any other lab in the country. It's where scientists are starting fires to better understand how ...

a hose reel line, and a bumper line while still maintaining the Clean Cab concept utilized in its apparatus since 2019. “As an agency with 78 fire stations and just under 200,000 incidents per ...

was on fire. Grinsfelder and his mother took turns taking shifts on their roof, spraying it down with the hose, with buckets of water at the ready, in case an ember blew onto their home.

They were connecting so many fire hoses, they had to find fire hydrants blocks away, Lynn Fire said. “This was now a defensive fire,” the post said. The wind whipped “large embers and brands ...