Keep reading to find out. Fighting Fire with Salt Water The quick answer is yes, ocean water can be used to fight fires. Saltwater provides similar qualities to fresh water and will extinguish a fire.

Water utilities in Altadena and Pacific Palisades are undertaking an arduous process of repressurizing their underground pipelines, testing for contaminants and attempting to flush them out.

Get a first-hand look at what the sheriff's office calls it's "Bambi Bucket." They used it Tuesday to fight a brush fire near Tuckers Grade Rd ...

If you are building a robot to fight fires, why not use the water that you are fighting fires with to propel your robot? That seems to be the idea behind the Dragon Fire Fighting robot built by ...

The National Emergency Management Agency has blamed the destruction of more than 500 shops and stalls in the Aleshinloye market in the Ibadan area of Oyo State on water scarcity and non-functional ...

The mayday was called when the MV Stena Immaculate oil tanker was hit by the container ship MV Solong off the East Yorkshire coast with crews abandoning both ships ...

The U.S. Forest Service fired 2,000 probationary workers. The agency says none were "operational firefighters," but some helped battle wildfires.