China hits back at U.S. tariffs by restricting export of crucial metals: tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum and indium.

The Pleasanton City Council had a long discussion regarding the city's water system last week as staff went over the status ...

Will this year begin another drought cycle? Or will we get unending storms the rest of winter and into spring? We don’t know, ...

If you want to run your sprinklers during a fire, you can,” said David Whitman, whose South Pasadena company, Brushfire ...

(KTLA) – You’ve seen buildings and homes with fire sprinklers inside … but what about on the roof? “It does save homes,” said Harry Statter of Frontline Wildfire Defense, a company that makes an app ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Some witnesses and reports suggested the hotel's fire detection system failed to operate. Atakan Yelkovan, a guest staying on the third floor, told AP it took firefighters about an hour to arrive ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday near Castaic Lake, growing to more than 10,000 acres and forcing mass evacuations. Around ...

The fire protection district responded to another building at the Breckenridge Terrace later in the day on Jan. 10 and discovered that a water flow activation in the sprinkler system had triggered ...

As fires can spread very quickly, sprinkler systems are seen as highly important for intervention at an early stage. So too is a back-up power source. According to fire protection regulations ...