Sohn, 72, looked outside and saw a small brush fire perilously close to her Pacific Palisades neighborhood in western Los Angeles. She watched firefighters douse the flames, waiting to see if she ...

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

Southern California reservoirs are near full, and hydrant problems are unrelated to the Delta and fish, they note ...

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are suing the city of Los Angeles and the Department of Water and Power, alleging that the ...

Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure ...

NPR transcribed 2,000 hours of radio communications from the LA fires. It shows hydrants going dry and first responders ...

A California father, who lost his home to wildfires on Jan. 8, is calling for significant changes in leadership “that absolutely failed" the state's residents in a crisis.

residents waited at intersections along the Pacific Coast Highway, such as Temescal Canyon and Channel Road, on Saturday for the opportunity to receive a police escort into the Palisades Fire burn ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that one firefighter made nearly $500,000 in overtime alone. How many more bodies might that have paid for?

FILE - A burned fire hydrant drips water in front of charred trees in ... but demand was so high that it wasn’t enough to ...

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