Contrary to what you may see in television sitcoms, a home sprinkler system will not activate and spray water throughout the house if someone lights a cigar. Burned toast won't do it either.

A fire sprinkler system is an incredibly effective fire suppression system, but there are other methods available for homeowners to put out a small fire. Using a fire extinguisher or fire blanket can ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) --Less than two weeks after one person was killed and nine others were injured in a massive fire that spread to 10 floors of a high-rise in Kenwood, CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey is ...

No image says summer more than a cracked-open fire hydrant spewing city water into a New York street. Although not intended as their primary role in the metropolis, it turns outthat fire hydrants have ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Inside, a destroyed home ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A full year after a high-rise fire that left one woman dead in Kenwood, hundreds of residents are still displaced. The massive blaze at the south tower of the Harper Square ...

A fire hydrant is a fire hydrant, right? It is in the ground, connected to a pipe, and it will give us as much water as we need when we need it, and it is fine to take whatever flow we need from it, ...

It is one of urban summer’s most iconic images: kids frolicking on the asphalt in front of the cooling spray of an open fire hydrant. Wrenching open the street-side water pumps is also one of the city ...

The West Monroe Fire Department will conduct hydrant flow tests on 781 fire hydrants located throughout the City of West Monroe. Hydrant flow tests are conducted each year to measure real-world ...