Connonym
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Wed Mar-28-07 10:50 PM
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Did you know that fire hydrants are color coded? |
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Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 10:55 PM by Connonym
And the color represents the pressure and fittings of the hydrant so that the fire dept can tell at a glance the water power they're going to have? Did everyone already know this except me?
FIRE HYDRANT COLOR CODES
BLUE AA 1500 AND UP
GREEN A 1000 -- 1499
YELLOW B 500 -- 999
RED C LESS THAN 500
WHITE DEAD NO FLOW
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Wed Mar-28-07 10:52 PM
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1. I had no idea. Thanks for the newsflash, Connonym |
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:D
I bet the dogs don't care about the colors, though. heh.
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Wed Mar-28-07 10:54 PM
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3. I had recently noticed that the hydrants in my neighborhood were all painted yellow |
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and my daughter asked me why they weren't red. I told her that the yellow didn't show the pee, lol. But I was curious so I did later google it to find out.
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Wed Mar-28-07 11:01 PM
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4. Ah, so the urine inspired you, eh? |
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Wed Mar-28-07 10:53 PM
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2. Not me, and I've had loads of fire-related training. |
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Of course, as a general rule, we didn't have a lot of "hydrants" onboard the ships. Thanks for the info (though it's slightly confusing, I think the insertion of some LFs or '-------'s might help)
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Wed Mar-28-07 11:05 PM
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but I used to be a police, fire and EMS dispatcher. We had a map in dispatch of each town we dispatched for. On each street there was a hydrant we had a push pin and they were all color coded.
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