Ebenezer Yenzu, the Tema Regional Public Relation Officer for the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), has said the command is ...

Recent fires that consumed entire Los Angeles neighborhoods underscore a stark lesson -- water utilities generally aren’t designed to respond to the large urban fires growing more common as climate ...

(AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) A new water meter with a remote shut off valve is installed on Thursday ... (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, File) A fire hydrant is seen Thursday, Feb. 13 ...

(AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) A new water meter with a remote shut off valve ... heli-hydrant in San Diego County was tapped nearly 30 times by aircraft fighting the 48-acre Garden Fire.

In November, a 5,000-gallon heli-hydrant in San Diego County was tapped nearly 30 times by aircraft fighting the 48-acre Garden Fire ... have a metal or concrete cover. These measures could ...

As buildings burn, so do their pipes, which spill water until a utility worker can safely get in to shut off the supply valve ... its heli-hydrant in 2021 after the 2017 Lilac Fire burned more ...

As wildfires grow more frequent and intense with climate change, and become a greater threat to cities, water utilities are reckoning with the reality that they must build back better.