Opening a hydrant is one of the ways some New Yorkers stay cool during the summer. However, the NYC Department of ...

As extreme heat continues in New York City, many are resorting to opening fire hydrants to cool down. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is asking New Yorkers to request spray caps from ...

Kids cooled off in water from an unauthorized fire hydrant in Milwaukee before crews shut it down and reminded residents not ...

The city’s Department of Environmental Protection is educating the public on how to get fire hydrants opened safely for these warm days. Bronx residents usually open fire hydrants to cool off during ...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A fire was lit under a Franklin County fire chief after being told by a local water authority that the fire company could no longer use the borough’s hydrants and just ...

A brazen 27-year-old woman who left her car parked next to a fire hydrant as a fatal fire tore through a Bronx Buddhist temple — then defiantly complained about parking in the area to reporters — has ...