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The Golden Fire Hydrant Photograph of the Golden Fire Hydrant near Dolores Park in San Francisco, California 37°45′29″N 122°25′41″W / 37.758009°N 122.427952°W / 37.758009; -122.
1869 Birdsill Holly fire-hydrant. Birdsill Holly Jr. (November 8, 1820 – April 27, 1894) was an American mechanical engineer and inventor of water hydraulics devices. He is known for inventing mechanical devices that improved city water systems and patented an improved fire hydrant that is similar to those used currently for firefighting.
External access point for fire sprinkler and dry standpipe at a building in San Francisco, US Antique wet standpipe preserved at Edison and Ford Winter Estates. A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water ...
Thieves have stolen about 300 fire hydrants in parts of Los Angeles County, according to the Golden State Water Co. The hydrants are sold for scrap metal.
A burst fire hydrant turned the streets of San Francisco, California, into a “blockbuster movie scene,” as a bystander put it.This footage, posted to Twitter on December 1, shows the ...
A fire hydrant burst on a busy intersection in the recently water-afflicted city of Montpellier, France, on September 16, causing a geyser of water to shoot into the air as cars passed by ...
The user (most likely a fire department) attaches a hose to the fire hydrant, then opens a valve on the hydrant to provide a powerful flow of water, on the order of 350 kilopascals (51 psi); this pressure varies according to region and depends on various factors (including the size and location of the attached water main).
This is notable because the first fire hydrant was invented by Manhattan fire fighter George Smith in 1817, making these devices 200 years old. [2] These incompatibilities have led to well-documented loss of life and buildings, including the Great Boston fire of 1872, the Great Baltimore Fire in 1904, and the Oakland firestorm of 1991.