Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Believe it or not, fire hydrants "speak" to firefighters. They communicate through the color scheme with which the hydrant is ...

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 ...

Last week we posted a map of the Rim fire's progression into Yosemite National Park from Inciweb. That map (see below) uses random, qualitative colors to represent the area burned by the fire each day ...

Red, yellow, violet— fire hydrants come in many different colors. But it's not for decoration. These colors have an important meaning that could just save your life one day. Following is a transcript ...

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 ...

Editor's Note -- Here's the latest in a series of articles written by a team of investigative reporters from Utah who spent several months probing wildland firefighting. Dec. 16--Before heading to the ...

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 ...