Connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply
Fire hydrant in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
A fire hydrant, fireplug, or firecock (archaic)[1] is a connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply. It is a component of active fire protection. Underground fire hydrants have been used in Europe and Asia since at least the 18th century. Above-ground pillar-type hydrants are a 19th-century invention.
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A firehydrant, fireplug, or firecock (archaic) is a connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply. It is a component of active fire...
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putting out small fires near the truck without having to connect to a firehydrant; easily recovered with a motorized reel. Also known as "red line" for...
to extinguish it. Outdoors, it attaches either to a fire engine, firehydrant, or a portable fire pump. Indoors, it can permanently attach to a building's...
Despite fire hose and hydrant coupler standardization efforts that are at least 144 years old, there remain significant areas in Canada, the United States...
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contain uncontrolled fires. Trained firefighters use fire apparatus, water supply resources such as water mains and firehydrants or they might use A and...
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applications of the Reuleaux triangle include giving the shape to guitar picks, firehydrant nuts, pencils, and drill bits for drilling filleted square holes, as...
fire as soon as they arrive on scene. When the onboard water supply runs out, the engine is connected to more permanent sources such as firehydrants...
collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North Firehydrant locator in Cartierville. Firehydrant locator in Laval Removable and swivelling metal or...
patented an improved firehydrant that is similar to those used currently for firefighting. Holly was a co-inventor of the Silsby steam fire engine. He founded...
water from a water source to a fire scene. Water tenders are capable of drafting water from a stream, lake or hydrant. This class of apparatus does not...
A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses...
most important element in mastering a fire in a closed area. Water may be accessed from a pressurized firehydrant, pumped from water sources such as lakes...
manufactured a brass stop tap that was and still is in use in many firehydrants worldwide, many hydrant covers have the foundry's name on them along with the towns...
unable to help since their hose couplings could not fit Baltimore's firehydrants. Much of the destroyed area was rebuilt in relatively short order, and...
supply line from the vicinity of the fire structure to a hydrant. (Typically laid from the hydrant toward the fire on the way in.) Bank down: What the...
Fire brigade keys are a set of standardized keys used in the United Kingdom to secure items which need to be kept locked against casual interference, but...
The fire point, or combustion point, of a fuel is the lowest temperature at which the vapour of that fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds...
A fire escape is a special kind of emergency exit, usually mounted to the outside of a building – occasionally inside, but separate from the main areas...
obstruction of emergency exits, fire hydrants and fire lanes, overcrowding, locking fire exits, smoking in fire hazard areas, the removing, destroying...
junkyard belonging to Gotti. Instead, Edwards parked the van in front of a firehydrant at his girlfriend's apartment, where police discovered it two days after...
fighting the fire were hindered by a lack of water. Rio's fire chief said that two nearby firehydrants had insufficient water, leaving firefighters to resort...
open to fire on Jan and Klaus's getaway car. At the last second, Han is able to pull her out of the way and the two take cover behind a firehydrant as Adolfson...
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