A: The city's Public Works Department has underground mains that supply water throughout the city. These mains have different sizes that can supply varying amounts of water. For the Houston Fire ...

Believe it or not, fire hydrants "speak" to firefighters. They communicate through the color scheme with which the hydrant is painted. This is a standard means of communication and some variant of the ...

LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - You see them every day in East Texas in every municipality. There was a time when they were all painted red, so they would stand out and be easily spotted: Fire hydrants. Now ...

METROPOLIS, Ill. – Think twice before painting a fire hydrant because there is a reason they’re not all red. Their color indicates how much water they can provide for first responders. This can be ...

Question: What's the color of my fire hydrant mean? If you live in the city of Cincinnati, you might have noticed your fire hydrant got a new pop of color lately. City officials announced in April ...

Q: Dogs and fire department staff may now have more difficulty finding fire hydrants in the snow this winter with them recently being painted a tactical desert sand color. What was wrong with the ...

Firefighters in Plum soon will know how much water a hydrant can provide just by looking at it. At the request of the borough and its volunteer fire departments, the Plum Borough Municipal Authority ...

CAMAS — Police say a Camas man who painted the fire hydrant in front of his house red became angry about a note from the water department that said it should be yellow, like all the other hydrants in ...

July 09--A Camas man pleaded not guilty today in Clark County Superior Court to threatening a city employee with a gun June 17 after the employee informed him that he had painted a city fire hydrant ...

Police say the 54-year-old man who found the note was drinking Monday and decided to confront the city employee who left it. He took a gun and went to the employee’s house. Witnesses called police to ...