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Can You Find Your Hydrants After a Heavy Snowfall?
Winter is coming sooner than we think. In years past we've had areas where, after a heavy snowfall, the fire hydrants disappear due to ignorant civilians plowing out their driveways and covering them up. In addition to an awareness campaign trying to educate homeowners about the dangers of not keeping the hydrants near their homes unburied, my town has installed steel rods with little flags on top that attach to one of the caps on the hydrant. They easily flex out of the way when opening or closing the hydrant.
Several ajoining towns have done similar things to ensure their hydrants are able to be located after heavy snowfall. I was wondering what other F.D's are doing about this.
Several ajoining towns have done similar things to ensure their hydrants are able to be located after heavy snowfall. I was wondering what other F.D's are doing about this.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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"the next thing ya know if you have sucked a 10 yr old off of the toilet and into your engine.LOL" - Kevin Burks
That's gotta be hell on the pump, not to mention the noise! LOL
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Burks on
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we just think it is something else knocking in the engine area
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Permalink Reply by BillySFCVFD on
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Remind me not to sit on a crapper with your engine out front. If I do I'll strap a 2 by 4 across my lap. TCSS
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Permalink Reply by Scott on
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Well over here in upstate NY for the rare places we do have hydrants (mostly main street) in our district our hydrants have a tiny metal pole off the top to show where they are works pretty well then again we never really use them
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Permalink Reply by Asst. Chief Bigshow on
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Snow, what is that? Just kidding. We don't have that problem around here. I live in south Georgia and we don't see snow but on T.V.. Over the years I've seen snow stick one maybe twice that I can remember. There have been several times I have seen some flurries but nothing to accumalate. If it does it melts as soon as it hits the ground.
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Permalink Reply by FIRE BEAR on
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well here we only have 3 hydrants and we put a pole with reflective tape around it. damn im not craping in texas ever if theres truck hooked up near by
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Permalink Reply by Engineco913 on
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Where's the divining rod? That is a sure fire way to fins water.... lol
We have rebar with a metal flag welded together that go between the plug and the cap. When tightened with a hydrant wrench, they stay upright and clearly mark out our hydrant locations. (we also have a map of the hydrant system in every truck)
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Nice! We do the same thing, but idiots still bury them with plowed snow!
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Permalink Reply by turk182 on
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Our hydrants stick up above the ground the pipe coming up out of the ground sticks up about a foot and a half and then the hydrant connects to it.
It is roughly 3' to 3 and a half foot from the ground to the steamer.
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Permalink Reply by LEO AFD389NY on
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We have on most of our hydrants a plastic like tube.It marks them well enough to find but the also make great things for our local and college kids to bend them and break them off. No matter what you use to mark the hydrants if they are burried in a snow bank they are doing you no good. Ever since I was a child my father would have us boys keep the hydrents on our street cleaned out in the winter months. As a Fire Department member now I still keep the ones near my house cleaned out.Hay you never know when it might be your house, and that hydrant is burried in snow. It would be nice if you could get your village DPW to clean them when you get a heavy snow. Just two scoops with the bucket of a backhoe and you are done, a nice wide area to work in.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher J. Naum, SFPE on
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Don't know which is worst...winter or spring...
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Permalink Reply by Salty Jake on
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Hide and seek........look for the police crusier...LOL, here in New hampsire!
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