Fire Engines Photos

Snaker - in winter season, do you have problems with the snow and ice, covering up and blocking your underground fire hydrants ?

In Canada, we have all our hydrants above the ground, for this reason. The water-main valves are over 4 feet (xxx cm) beneath the surface - below the frost line; and remotely operated by long rods, through the middle of the hydrant.

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 28 May 2009.

Yes, Pat! Winter is serious problem in winter!
In St-Petersburg each hydrant have plate at nearest wall, column, etc. At plate marked, where to look for the hatch. It also marked the appointment of the well (telephone, drainage, sewerage or water).
So we are looking for hydrants!

Added by SNAKER on 29 May 2009.

Hi Pat and Snaker! We has the same system with plates for underground firehydrants in Sweden.They are red with white digits.You can see them on a wall, a streetlight pool, and sometimes on a single pool with only the plate on it.

Anders F. Sweden.

Added by Anders Fallström on 14 September 2014.

This photo nicely illustrates the very common Russian practice of using both a flat hose and a small diameter suction to draw water from the hydrant.

From the look of the flat hose, mains pressure seems rather low, which is presumably why a suction is always connected up too....

Added by Rob Johnson on 18 December 2018.

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