Posts Categorized: Hydrants
Broken Hydrant Brings Down Gas Station Canopy
Red Light Runner Triggers Chain Reaction
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“Catching the Hydrant” Takes a Little Longer in Miami Beach Now
LAST WEEK A MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, WOMAN heard some noise in her front yard and checked to see what it was.
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San Diego Hydrant Testing
"Okay, so you got good pressure. But what's the flow?"
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Apartment Fire in Ohio Complicated by Dry Hydrants
Contractor Had Shut Down Fire Mains, Never Restored Service.
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Frigid Water Supplies
Arctic Weather Challenges Northeastern Firefighters
THE WAVE OF SUB-FREEZING WEATHER THAT swept across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states Monday set up some real challenges for firefighters as hydrants froze and working areas iced over. We are …
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Who Cares What the FD Thinks?
The other bill calls for reducing the distance to be maintained from the hydrant from 15 feet down to 10 feet...
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Just Throw Dirt On It
The water district has padlocked all the fire hydrants and refuses to give the FD a key.
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Laws Are For the “Little People”
WHEN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MAYOR MIKE McGINN traveled to a P.R. event downtown Tuesday, parking was a little sparse for the mayoral SUV.
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Downtown Fire in Iowa – No Water
What do you do when the well runs dry? They were pondering that in Iowa this weekend.
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U-Haul Hits Hydrant
Within a short time, half the city block was flooded and the broken main caused a sinkhole where it undermined the area around the hydrant.
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Now THAT’s a Water Main Break!
A TEN-FOOT DIAMETER WATER PIPE THAT CARRIES all of Boston's drinking water to the city sprung a leak Saturday and had to be shut down.
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California Hydrant Thief Nabbed
He had the look. The man wore an orange vest, drove around in a white pickup truck with cones in the back and carried a foot-long "key" for the purpose at hand.
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Hose & Hydrant Art
....creating an imaginative street sculpture using an abandoned house, a fire hydrant, and a fire hose.
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Hydrants in the News
THIS LOVELY, COLOR-COORDINATED, MINT GREEN AND SILVER FIRE HYDRANT located just outside of Tiger Woods' home isn't the only hydrant making news this week.
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Hydrant – 1, Woods – 0
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CHAMPION GOLFER TIGER WOODS WAS INJURED EARLY THIS MORNING at his home in Orlando, Florida, when his SUV that he was driving struck a fire hydrant and then careened into a tree. The accident took place around 2:25 am, but the…
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Hydrant at the Ready
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, IS NOT BEING CREDITED lately as having a well-functioning city government. Their finances are a mess and the only solution they seem to be able to come up with is to lay off more and more city workers.
It looks like they've…
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EMS Budget Challenge In Texas
THE AUSTIN-TRAVIS COUNTY EMS in Texas is facing a familiar challenge these days, budgetary shortfall. Despite a continually-increasing workload and hiring freeze, they have managed to reduce their response times.
But now being asked to cut another $3 …
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Landmark Business Burns In Hartford
A 4th-GENERATION FAMILY-OWNED LAUNDRY burned down last night in Hartford, Connecticut.
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WFSB-TV
The Sunshine Laundry was unoccupied at 11:30 pm Friday night when the alarm came in for the fire on Maple Ave.Â…
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"Training Leg" Inquiry Expands
THE BIZARRE CASE OF THE FLORIDA FIREFIGHTER who took a crash victim's severed foot home for cadaver dog training is expanding.
The incident happened on September 19 when a man crashed his car into a tree in St. Lucie County with such force that it took …
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Another Sex-Perverted Fire Chief
THE CHIEF OF THE JACKSONPORT, WISCONSIN, FIRE DEPARTMENT is being held this morning under $20,000 bond after being arrested in a child sex-sting operation.
The Appleton Post-Crescent is reporting:
Bradley S. Bley, 41, of Egg Harbor, was charged Friday w…
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"Mr. Clean" Dies At Age 92
HOUSE PETERS, JR., THE BALD AND BRAWNY character actor whose image has been used in Proctor & Gamble's advertisements for Mr. Clean products for 50 years died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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His family made the annou…
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Metal Thieves Pick Up The Pace
METAL THIEVES HAVE BEEN vandalizing fire hydrants nationwide in brazen attempts to steal brass parts for resale. But in Long Beach, Californina, they have taken it a step farther. In the past month, seven complete fire hydrants have been stolen from …
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Morning Lineup – August 23
Ever since I reminded everybody of my fondness for house sirens on Thursday, people have been sending me links to websites and video clips featuring house sirens and horns of all kinds. Thanks to all of you. I haven't had time to listen to every one …
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Train Ka-Boom In Oklahoma
A BNSF FREIGHT TRAIN HAS DERAILED AND STARTED BURNING not far from Oklahoma City. The tank cars making up part of the train are carrying crude oil and ethanol.
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Shortly after the derailment smoke started showing…
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Smoke Showing In Stuttgart
THE STUTTGART FEUERWEHR IN GERMANY had a working fire in a Toyota auto dealership on Wednesday.
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The event itself wasn't anything that warrants international mention, but a local fire buff named Jorg Stuggi posted so…
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