Back siphonage may be caused by nearby a large consumption of water from fire hydrants or water main breaks. Water distribution systems - due to their size, complexity and variety of users - are often ...

The City of Ottawa’s Flusher Hydrant Program issues permits to businesses requiring non-potable water for services such as street cleaning or pool filling. Businesses looking to use City water from ...

The water system used to fight the Palisades fire in Los Angeles buckled under the demands of what turned out to be the most destructive fire in city history, with some hydrants running dry as ...

People living all over Los Angeles were urged Wednesday to conserve water after hydrants ran dry as major wildfires erupted around the city. Firefighters battling out-of-control blazes struggled ...

Something this big and this fast that you kind of just wiped out the whole town was something that I personally and I think *** lot of people from around here never saw coming. Unrelenting ...

Per the Los Angeles Times, firefighters could be heard discussing the water outage on their internal radio channels. “The hydrants are down,” one firefighter reportedly said.

(WMBB) – In November 2023, a fire destroyed the St. Andrews Yacht Club. A fire hydrant right across the street was not working. Fire officials say that the hydrant would not have made a ...