While hydrants can play a role in fighting a wildfire in its early stages, the systems weren’t designed to combat the large ...

Our reporter caught up with a number of people who had prepared for wildfires with built-in systems. ‘I’m sleeping with one ...

The firefighter fell to the ground in pain on the side of the road, and a good Samaritan used his car to shield him from ...

The senior firefighter suffered an open lower leg fracture after he was struck by the coupling pulled away from the hydrant.

Firefighters battled a townhouse fire in Flushing, Queens, complicated by a frozen hydrant and resulting in three injuries.

A resident drove over what firefighters describe as a lifeline: the hose supplying water from a fire hydrant, KCTV reports. Firefighters say the hose got caught underneath the driver’s car.