Blocked fire hydrant reports in the Big Apple skyrocketed last year as fire officials continue to blame slowed response to some blazes on drivers skirting the law. Complaints to 311 about blocked fire ...

AIKEN — The City of Aiken conducted fire hydrant flushing beginning Jan. 4 to test volume and pressure. The flushing was not related to episodes of discolored water which occurred in the summer 2025, ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Springfield Fire Department (SFD) has confirmed to OzarksFirst that during a response to a massive apartment fire, firefighters discovered a fire hydrant just several hundred ...

Complaints to 311 about blocked fire hydrants jumped 23.4% in 2025, with 165,466 reports made compared to about 134,000 the year prior, according to a Post analysis of city data. The reports have ...

Ramy Inocencio is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in London, covering Europe and the Middle East. He joined the Network in 2019 as CBS News' Asia correspondent, based in Beijing and reporting ...

What was meant to be a time of celebration turned into a night of devastation for dozens of Algiers residents as two separate fires on New Year’s Day left more than 30 people displaced and raised ...

The Denver area’s largest fire in decades engulfed an entire city block in flames over the weekend. Murphy says the blaze is “by far” the biggest that DFD has faced in recent history. It’s the first ...

Crans-Montana, Switzerland — A Mass was held Sunday for victims of the New Year's Eve fire at a bar in the Swiss Alpine resort of Crans-Montana that left 40 dead and many severely injured, as ...

In Freeside, nobody looks twice at The Ghoul impaled on a pole by the side of the road. He can't reach his vials and is ...