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  Wollongong Extinguisher Service-Australia. For Fire Extinguishers.
Fire hose reels are provided for use by occupants as a 'first attack' firefighting measure but may, in some instances, also be used by firefighters.
When stowing a fire hose reel, it is important to first attach the nozzle end to the hose reel valve, then close the hose reel valve, then open the nozzle to relieve any pressure in the wound hose, then close the nozzle.
Fire hydrants are for the sole use of trained fire fighters (which includes factory fire fighting teams).
www.fireservice.com.au /hydrants.html   (618 words)

  
 Fire hydrant - Uncyclopedia
Fire hydrant sent out at least two sweepstakes entries a day for 6 months, for prizes ranging from a year’s supply of Doritos, a Playstation with 3 games, and a $10,000 cash prize.
On the day of the party, fire hydrant spent the first hour uneasily searching for the man that invited it to the party, but couldn’t ask anyone where he was, because it couldn’t remember his name.
During this awkward period of time, however, fire hydrant noticed a woman in a fl skirt drinking beer from a wine glass on the porch who caught its fancy.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Fire_hydrant   (856 words)

  
 Fire Hydrant - Background, Types of Hydrants, Raw Materials, Design, The Manufacturing, Quality Control
The water supply may be pressurized, as in the case of hydrants connected to water mains buried in the street, or unpressurized, as in the case of hydrants connected to nearby ponds or cisterns.
Unpressurized hydrants may be the same design as the pressurized hydrants within a city or fire district in order to maintain commonality, or they may be a simple capped pipe design with no valves.
Making a fire hydrant is primarily a metal-casting process, and most hydrant companies are metal foundries that specialize in manufacturing a variety of municipal water works components.
www.madehow.com /Volume-4/Fire-Hydrant.html   (2476 words)

  
 Fire Hydrant Maintenance Using GPS and GIS
Fire hydrant maintenance is a chore performed by the Fire Department.
New hydrants were added, bogus hydrants were removed, and most of the other hydrants were shifted slightly to correctly represent their true location.
Prior to the hydrant survey these descriptions were often limited to "the one in front of the third house on the left north of the intersection." Dispatch was often confused about exactly which hydrant was out of service.
www.esri.com /news/arcuser/0100/hydrant.html   (996 words)

  
 NZ Fire Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A fire hydrant is situated within 135m of a building, but in order to access it, a feeder line will need to be run close to 220m.
It also states that fire hydrants must be readily accessible for fire appliances and should ideally be positioned near road or street intersections and not less than 6m from any building to maintain a clear working space.
Fire hydrants that do not comply may be included in the calculation of fire fighting water supply at the discretion of the Chief Fire Officer of the fire district.
www.fire.org.nz /building/faq/water_faq.htm   (1752 words)

  
 JEA News - Fire Hydrant FAQ
Fire protection is the duty of the Fire Marshall and the Fire Department.
JEA would be pleased to help the Fire Marshall, fire department and city officials improve fire protection in Jacksonville by installing fire hydrants at cost for any individual or agency willing to provide the funding.
One solution the fire department already uses is tankers that transport water to the scene of a fire where fire hydrants are too distant for hoses.
www.jea.com /about/news/stories/firehydrantfaq.asp   (955 words)

  
 Fire Hydrant Permit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
To prevent unrestricted use of public fire hydrants, a permit procedure is maintained, with fees calculated to equitably recover costs associated with controlled use of hydrants.
Fire hydrants shall be opened completely and remain open until connection is to be removed.
An advance deposit, to cover the cost of the equipment issued and anticipated water consumption, will be required of users who have damaged hydrants, damaged or lost meters or tools, who have been 90 days delinquent on charges related to previous permits, or who maintain their office outside the service area.
www.ci.whittier.ak.us /fire_hydrant_permit.html   (625 words)

  
 Tampabay: Fire hydrant never tagged as dry
CLEARWATER -- The fire hydrant that came up dry in last week's fatal condominium blaze was discovered broken four days earlier by city utilities workers, but they failed to tag the hydrant as inoperable.
Clearwater Fire Chief Rowland Herald estimated that three firefighters wasted 60 to 90 seconds tapping into the dead hydrant, which was closest to the blaze on the fifth floor of an 11-story condo tower on Island Estates.
Investigators are still working on a timeline to help determine the cause and origin of the fire, which started in the kitchen of a two-bedroom unit on the fifth floor, grew to 1,000 degrees and burst down the hallway and out the balcony, shooting four stories high.
www.sptimes.com /2002/07/04/TampaBay/Fire_hydrant_never_ta.shtml   (788 words)

  
 Fire hydrant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hose is attached to the fire hydrant, then the valve is opened to provide a powerful source of water, 50 lbf/in² (350 kPa) in some areas (possibly more in others), depending on various factors including the size and location of the attached water main.
Additionally, residents who wish to use the hydrant to fill their in-ground swimming pool are commonly permitted to do so provided they pay for the water and agree to allow firefighters to draft from their pool in the case of an emergency.
The inventor of the injected fire hydrant was James Henry Greathead.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fire_hydrant   (1780 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / THE FIRE HYDRANT
The ancestor of the fire hydrant is the even more humble fireplug, a term often still used.
The hydrant consisted of a cast-iron standpipe enclosed in a polygonal wooden housing.
Fire companies called in to help out in neighboring municipalities often found their hoses were incompatible with the local nozzles.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/2002/3/2002_3_10.shtml   (842 words)

  
 El Dorado Hills Fire Dept. - Fire Hydrants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A fire engine can only carry a limited amount of water, so it is vitally important for firefighters to be able to hook the fire engines to the hydrants to supply them with enough water to fight the fire.
Fire engines also have a pump that gives the water from the hydrant enough pressure to fill the hoses and helps the firefighters reach the seat of the fire.
Fire hydrants have been around for a long time and continue to be an integral part of firefighting efforts.
www.edhfire.com /hydrants.htm   (269 words)

  
 Hydrant Systems - [ EQUIFAB - The Experienced Security Consultants ]
Whenever anyone opens a hydrant valve, the pressure in the pipeline reduces drastically and jockey pumpset which normally keeps the total system pressurized is unable to cope with the system demand which results in further fall in pressure.
The further fall in pressure is sensed by the designated pressure switch which automatically starts the main fire pumpset.
Depending upon the type and sensitivity of the risk, diesel-engine powered fire pumpset should also be installed having 100% standby capacity.
www.fireturnkey.com /sys_hydrant.htm   (165 words)

  
 Fire Hydrants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All hydrants in the Winterport distribution system open left and are of the dry barrel type.
The hydrant pictured here is a Waterous Pacer WB-67-250 Its is composed of all ductile iron construction designed for 250 psi working pressure and tested to 500 psi hydrostatic pressure.
Ludlow Valve, the makers of Ludlow fire hydrants, was founded by Henry G. Ludlow in 1866 in Waterford, NY.
www.winterportmaine.org /fire-hydrants.htm   (418 words)

  
 Commercial Fire Hydrant Services - About The Hydrant Doctor, fire hydrant repair, consulting, training, and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hydrant Doctor provides fire hydrant maintenance and repair services throughout the Pittsburgh region, including Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Greensburg and Westmoreland County, Washington and Washington County, Uniontown, Connellsville and Fayette County, Somerset and Somerset County, Ebensburg and Cambria County, Blairsville, Indiana and Indiana County.
Fire hydrant maintenance and repair, including repairs to leaking, damaged, and frozen hydrants.
Before the modern fire hydrant, a less elegant fire suppression system was to bury a wooden water pipe (often no more than a hollowed out log) along the streets.
www.hydrantdoctor.com.cob-web.org:8888 /about.htm   (611 words)

  
 County Installs Dry Fire Hydrant
Dry fire hydrants are used in rural or remote areas where a pressurized municipal or public source water supplies may not be available.
They are typically installed where fire departments have all weather access to a pond or other impounded water source for fire fighting purposes.
Dry hydrants are designed to draw 800 to 1200 gallons of water per minute to fire trucks fighting a fire within the vicinity of the dry hydrant.
www.aacounty.org /news/archive2002/hydrant.cfm   (325 words)

  
 InfraResto Corp - Fire Hydrants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This information is provided to you as a basic guide to some of the more common components of a fire hydrant and is not meant as a guide for restoration work.
Some older hydrants such as the Big Lawson and the Lawco-500 should be replaced and put in a museum.
All hydrants are required to have a colour code of blue, green, orange, or red tops and caps.
www.infraresto.ca /fire-hydrants   (216 words)

  
 Scranton's fire-hydrant crisis
A fire that ravaged four West Scranton houses, damaged two others and threatened a residential city block Thursday morning might have been contained sooner if fire hydrants in the neighborhood were working and dead hydrants were tagged, firefighters said.
Every Scranton fire hydrant was tested last May and a list of those that did not work was turned over to the city.
Pennsylvania American Water Co. inspects nearly 6,400 fire hydrants across Lackawanna and Luzerne counties once a year, but the company is only obligated to fix or replace the approximately 4,000 hydrants in Luzerne County, a company official says.
www.scrantontimestribune.com /stories/hydrants/hydrantsindex.htm   (795 words)

  
 Fire Hydrant Inventory Made Simple with ArcPad
Requests for hydrant information originating from two sources-within EVMWD and from local fire agencies-made the GIS staff decide that it was time for a fire hydrant inventory.
The existing fire hydrant database, street rights-of-way, street centerlines, and miscellaneous layers are be loaded on the IPAQ and set up in ArcPad.
For each hydrant, the data collector refers to the hydrant database, verifies the hydrant in the field, and inputs data into the form.
www.esri.com /news/arcuser/0101/arcpad.html   (524 words)

  
 World's Largest Fire Hydrant, Beaumont, Texas
The fire museum marching band kicked off with the movie's signature song, "Cruella De Vil," while 101 Texas firefighters danced around the hydrant, climaxing as it sprayed firefighters with water and confetti.
A few years later, the World's Largest Fire Hydrant still stands, in a sandy lot a few blocks from part of the city undergoing a commercial rebirth.
In July, 2001 on Canada Day, the town of Elm Creek, Manitoba unveiled a 29 and 1/2 ft. tall fire hydrant constructed over a period of seven months by volunteer fire fighters.
www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/TXBEAhydrant.html   (492 words)

  
 FireHydrant.org - The #1 Hydrant Information Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This Mellert hydrant is uncommon, very few examples remain.
The powder coated hydrant shown here was a basket case when discovered, brought back to life through the efforts of Ralph Bascelli and his community.
This hydrant is to be part of a firefighter's memorial in front of the fire station in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.
www.firehydrant.org   (74 words)

  
 || :: Fire Fighting Equipments, Fire Extinguishers, Fire Alarm System, Fire Hydrant and Accessories - Sun Fire Safety ...
Fire Trix Engineering and Systems Pvt Ltd., (FTE) is an ISO 9001:2000 certified Fire Fighting Company.
It is one of the fast developing Fire fighting Systems and Equipment provider in Chennai and other regions of Tamil Nadu for over 6 years since its inception in 2000.
The Management at Fire Trix Engineering and Systems Pvt Ltd., has always believed in ensuring that Fire Safety is one of the high priority area to be concerned from the beginning stage of any company and industry.
www.firetrix.in /index1.htm   (361 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Fire Hydrant Sculpture
Most of the "fire hydrants" here are actually just white plates on the ground covering an outlet, with a marking on the road to point to them.
Two dogs are walking down the street and one says "hey, could you wait here for a second?" Then he runs across the street and sniffs at a fire hydrant for a while, and then he comes back to join the other dog again.
The point of a fire hydrant is to give firemen easy access to the water they need to pump through their trucks to put out a fire.
www.halfbakery.com /idea/Fire_20Hydrant_20Sculpture   (435 words)

  
 Fire Hydrants - ACIPCO
American Flow Control is one of the world's largest manufacturers of fire hydrants and fire hydrant accessories.
This hydrant's rod spring assures that drains close after approximately three turns of the operating nut.
The B-84-B-5 hydrant is loaded with the features you expect from a high-quality fire hydrant.
www.acipco.com /afc/hydrants/index.cfm   (212 words)

  
 Golden Fire Hydrant
Engine 27 had stopped the fire's westward march at Market and Guerrero Streets, but the flames were steadily progressing South.
Behind the fireline, homeowners were on their roofs beating out sparks and small fires with blankets, mops, casks of wine - anything that could be used.
The magic hydrant at Twentieth and Church was painted gold and returned to service, where it remains.
www.naalarm.com /bill/golden.htm   (576 words)

  
 Fire Hydrant Collections @ FireHydrant.org
Below are links to photo pages of hydrant collections, and within these pages are found a variety of ideas and the motivations on which people base their hydrant interests.
One important aspect common to all of these, however, is the historic preservation of hydrants, whether intended or not.
Hydrant collecting, therefore, has become the primary means by which this part of fire service history can be preserved.
www.firehydrant.org /collector/index.html   (330 words)

  
 Hydrant
The project required painting "a castle on a fire hydrant", but turned out to be much more.
I found out from Carlton that the Carlsbad CC was having a fund raiser to help beautify downtown Carlsbad and donate part of the proceeds to family's of Marines injured in the Iraq War.
There are different "flatish" surface areas on a hydrant that can lend themselves to small vignettes if you're are painting a landscape...
www.hanlonassociates.com /hydrant.htm   (601 words)

  
 Become.com - Shop results for fire hydrant
This adorable fire hydrant cocktail shaker has a silver finish and is tarnish resistant.
KidKraft's Fire Hydrant Toddler Table is a great way to pretend play and snuff out fires!This fireman toy features a fire hydrant on each side, making this child table a great addition to any child's bedroom set!View the full Firefighter...
Fire Hydrant Adapter - 2-1/2 inch Female NST Fire Hose Thread by 3/4 inch male garden hose thread adaptor, made of brass, with 2 standard pin lugs for spanner wrench.
www.become.com /shop?q=fire+hydrant   (483 words)

  
 Fire Hydrant
In January 2006, Fire Hydrant rolled for UBC's Board of Governors a third time.
The Hydrant was rather sad to miss, yet again.
In January 2005, Fire Hydrant rolled for UBC's Board of Governors a second time.
www.geocities.com /vote4hydrant   (208 words)

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