Water application by firefighters is the foundation of firefighting. The American fire service has used water as the primary extinguishing agent since the beginning of bucket brigades, such as ...

Centrifugal fire pumps long have been the backbone of pumping apparatus in the fire service because of their efficiency and their versatility. They come in various configurations, so departments must ...

A San Gabriel Valley man who built a water pump that was credited with saving a home from the Palisades Fire is getting inundated with calls and emails from apprehensive homeowners looking to protect ...

While the Los Angeles fires have destroyed up to 20,000 structures and left tens of thousands of people displaced, some homes have miraculously escaped the blazes. One white mansion in Malibu, owned ...

KASE Pumping Systems was founded as a specialist in carbon fiber composite pump systems for fire trucks and other industrial applications, filling a need in the industry to build lighter weight, ...

In the first installment of this three-part series of articles, featured in the August 2024 print issue and online, we discussed fire pump requirements along with Code-related references in the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Hundreds of people living in a South Shore high-rise still don't know when they can get back into their homes after a fire on Thursday. Fire investigators as of Friday still had not ...

Fig. 1. The minimum electrical requirements for installing fire pumps are found in Article 695. A general philosophy for most electrical installations is to provide ...

As thousands of homes started to burn across Los Angeles on Jan. 7, fire hydrants stopped working. The rapid spread of flames in winds up to 100 miles per hour was happening too quickly for water ...

The weeks-long effort to flood out a wetland fire in New Orleans East is getting reinforcements from the Army Corps of Engineers. On Monday, the Army Corps lent out five 8-inch portable pumps to help ...