Frozen fire hydrants made for a difficult time in firefighters’ efforts to battle a house fire in Bay City, a blaze that claimed the life of two family pets. Fire crews were dispatched to the fire at ...

The feeds were downloaded from Broadcastify.com, a live audio streaming platform. The audio messages chronicle how ...

Firefighters are battling a large fire creating a smoke plume visible for miles around Gastonia. The fire is burning on East ...

Bitterly cold temperatures hindered firefighters’ efforts to douse a Brooklyn house fire early Wednesday, with frozen ...

Firefighters deal with frozen fire hydrants to battle massive fire at commercial building in Gastonia, North Carolina ...

Some fire hydrants in Los Angeles had no water to douse the fires. Here's what happened, and why the endangered smelt fish ...

Some were completely dry. The failure of the hydrants was due to reliance on a system designed to fight one house fire at a time, not an apocalyptic moment when hundreds of homes are burning ...

Hydrants in the Palisades can hold 3 million gallons of water, but the fire that started at 10:30 Tuesday morning had used it ...

Other fires, like the 2023 Maui fires and the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Northern California, have caused hydrants to go dry in the ...

The audio messages chronicle how firefighters first noticed hydrants going dry and how they responded to the emergency with depleted resources. Just eight hours after that initial call alerting ...