KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Inside, a destroyed home is black and stark, made of tarps and the remains of furniture. Just one look tells you everything: A disaster. But it wasn’t always like that. For two ...

The person whose letter (“Burning question: Do fire hydrants work?” Letters to the Editor, April 11) questioned fire hydrants actually working has every right to be concerned. In February, I contacted ...

City Utilities manages nearly 9,000 hydrants in its system. Officials say finding out when one is damaged is crucial to ...

Does anyone know how many of our fire hydrants are working and which ones are not? Are they color-coded? Exactly whose job is it to be on top of this? Is this work budgeted?

Officials evacuated Alpha Project’s Bridge Shelter, a massive gray tent near 16th Street and Newton Avenue on the edge of ...

When a father and daughter were killed in a July 5 house fire in unincorporated Port Orchard, firefighters arrived to find little usable water from a nearby hydrant. The hydrant is part of an older ...

Residents of Harmar’s Werner Camp neighborhood, tucked along the Allegheny River, have great views of the water and little traffic. But it’s what they don’t have that should be of concern: fire ...