Firefighters arrived at a Tanglewood home within five minutes of a 911 call. Crews soon reported a problem: They didn’t have water.

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Instead of having water immediately available at the hydrant tap, "dry" hydrants keep water further underground below the frost line. Also called "dry barrel hydrants", the hydrants are activated when ...

At some point this week, up to 20 per cent of the city’s hydrants went dry, according to LA mayor Karen Bass. And on Thursday night, firefighters had stopped tapping into hydrants at all.

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Limited hydrants hinder California firefighting efforts The intense firefighting operations strained the local water infrastructure, resulting in dry hydrants at elevated locations. Officials ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into why the hydrants went dry. But first, an update on the weather forecast: The region is expected to get a reprieve today from the powerful wind ...

A structure burns during the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California on Jan. 7. Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images ...

Some fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades ran dry overnight Tuesday due to "extreme demand" and low water pressure, Los Angeles officials said. The Palisades Fire, which was first reported at 10:30 ...

But when he pried it open, no water came out. The hydrant was empty. The Cal Fire volunteer and photographer said he encountered at least four dry hydrants as he tried to aid those battling the ...

Something this big and this fast that you kind of just wiped out the whole town was something that I personally and I think *** lot of people from around here never saw coming. Unrelenting ...