water pumps can go dead, locking firefighters out of desperately needed water if a fire erupts. Assemblymember Steve Bennett aims to prevent that by mandating backup generators and other upgrades.

Pumps are needed to refill high-elevation tanks to maintain water pressure. “I thought, after the Thomas fire, all water districts would put in backup generators,” Bennett said. But that was ...

A San Gabriel Valley man who built a water pump that was credited with saving a home from the Palisades Fire is getting inundated ... “I want to give their house a fighting change,” he said ...