Workers from Coney Island’s Luna Park were caught on camera apparently stealing water from the city, filling up its log flume ride with H2O from a nearby fire hydrant. A reporter for this newspaper ...

After a year and a half, Nancy Battino is tired of having to maneuver her sport-utility vehicle between a big curbside tree and a fire hydrant just to pull into her driveway. But she is not so tired ...

A downtown Detroit coffeehouse and an adjoining jewelry store get all their water from a system of plastic pipe and garden hoses attached to a nearby fireplug with duct tape and towels. The ...

A front-page article in the May 2, 1934, Daily News reported that a motorist appearing in city police court on a charge of parking too close to a fireplug told the judge that he didn’t know what a ...