Homeowners are buying and installing private fire hydrant systems to help protect their homes during wildfires.

Building a query asking for all areas within 60 meters of a fire hydrant gave me my service areas ... Larger fires might require more water and access to a fire hydrant would be needed. The residences ...

“Yesterday, just in California alone, there were about 30 orders,” Barry McConaghey, a former firefighter who owns ...

Three years ago, she had spent $1,350 on the personal hydrant system ... “It’s your water, it’s behind your meter. If you want to run your sprinklers during a fire, you can,” said David ...

"That is all potable water. It feeds your fire hydrant systems. It feeds your water meter. You turn on your faucet in your kitchen. It is the same water that is in the fire hydrants," said Jeremy ...

Firefighters struggled to control the Palisades fire ... hydrant systems can quickly be pushed beyond what they were engineered to handle. There are multiple ways the systems can fall behind ...

As wildfires become increasingly common in urban areas such as Boulder, Colorado and Lahaina, Hawaii, public water systems are often unable to meet the demand of fighting these large fires.

A Jan. 11 Instagram post (direct link, archived link) claims to show a costly and empty rainbow-painted fire hydrant across the street from a row of homes engulfed in flames. “No water ...