These L.A. Homeowners Installed Private Fire Hydrants. Here’s How They Fared.

Kevin B. Rosenbloom in November demonstrated using the personal fire hydrant he had installed at his Malibu home, before the latest wildfires.

Our reporter caught up with a number of people who had prepared for wildfires with built-in systems. ‘I’m sleeping with one eye open.’

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As the fires ravaging Pacific Palisades expanded and started moving toward his home in the Malibu Hills last week, Brent Woodworth connected two 100-foot hoses to his personal fire hydrant and put one on each side of the driveway. 

When firefighters showed up, they used those hoses to save his home and the two next door, he says. The next day, when the hydrant’s water pressure dropped, he used a pump to take water from the swimming pool across the street so firefighters could continue hosing down the houses and fighting off embers. LEARN MORE…

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