“Despite being smack in the middle of the rainy season, brush conditions over Southern California are currently as dry as they ever get in the summer (the dry season),” AccuWeather California Expert ...

Jason Cerrano got the idea for the SAM Control System about 15 years ago while working a house fire for the Pattonville Fire ...

The new president would have to quickly change his own regulations to produce more water. That’s not how things work, writes ...

For local agencies, the disaster in Southern California has prompted renewed attention to issues such as storage, flow ...

President Trump landed in Los Angeles on Friday to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county.

President Trump says he plans to issue an order to 'open up the pumps' and deliver more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin ...

Starting Jan. 1, the Bedford County Department of Community Development began implementing a new mandatory sewage disposal system pump-out for properties around Smith Mountain Lake. The measure ...

Specialized aircraft deliver strategic water drops and retardant lines to contain flames in California’s challenging ...

It’s been a very mixed week. On Friday Rob took me to Iford to hear John Robinson’s talk on ‘Iford in the Good Old Days’.

A plan to provide firefighters in Los Angeles and Orange counties almost limitless seawater to fight fires has been stalled for more than a decade, despite the ever-looming threat of mass fires fueled ...

The hydrants have been taken offline to repair the damage. The county said they should have a backup system up and running in the next few weeks, and then they can do a full assessment of the damage ...

An Illinois fire department says the systems needed to fight a fire as large as the ones in California don't exist. An ...