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Carlsbad, CA.
In the early 1920s, Jones worked with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power to custom design the service brass which later became a standard part of the Jones product line. During both World War I and World War II, Jones supplied water, gas and steam valves for the Navy’s battleships and destroyers. In 1926, Jones built it’s first bronze fire hydrant at the request of the Fire Chief of Monrovia, California.
Although Jones was not the first company to market a wet barrel hydrant, it was the first to cast a wet barrel hydrant in bronze. Jones turned the use of bronze into a marketing advantage, selling the product based upon the long term benefits of bronze over iron. For example, the City of Beverly Hills replaced one of the first Jones hydrants (believed to have been installed in 1926) after over 60 years of service.
The Jones bronze wet barrel hydrant remains the preferred fire hydrant in most parts of California.
Last year, my neighbor's house had fire.
It was very dangerous and serious situation.
My house almost caught fire.
After all, this hydrant helped my house.
I am very grateful for this great(:D) hydrant.
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So wie mancher - mit dem Hintergedanken, daß sie mehr Staubsaugen möge - seiner Frau einen Staubsauger schenkt, so widmet uns die "Wiener Städtische Versicherung" einen Hydranten: Wenn sie schon den Brandschaden nicht zahlen, dann soll es wenigstens eine Chance zum Löschen geben. Oder so.
My hometown only has a few housing tracts and they are all in a different part of town. In the area where I grew up each house was custom built to the likes of the owner. Normally, the only restrictions were the size of the lots (which were typically very narrow -- not seen here) and a height limitation (can only be two stories).
There are still very few sidewalks or streetlights and many think that the place looks like a hodge podge because every house is very different. But I love that about this area.
Crop of a shot of a "broken" Hydrant in Brooklyn during the heat wave. Shot with the manual 1.8 Oly lens.
Fire hydrant in front of my apartment in Wu Zhou Hua Cheng, Xiangzhou. I suddenly grew fond of these things for no reason at all.
Fire hydrant seen in Copenhagen, Denmark, late March 2013.
Canon EOS 30, Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 4/20, f/8, Kodak Gold 200 @ISO 125.
Painted with so many colours that the question comes up "Does it still function as a fire hydrant?""
Spring Lake was formed as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 14, 1892, from portions of Wall Township), based on the results of a referendum held on March 8, 1892. On February 24, 1903, the borough of North Spring Lake was annexed.
During the "Gilded Age" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Spring Lake developed into a coastal resort for high society members of New York City and Philadelphia in a similar fashion to the settlements of Newport, Rhode Island and Bar Harbor, Maine. A surviving example of architecture constructed during this era is the Martin Maloney Cottage on Morris Avenue next to the tycoon's former and no longer existent Ballingarry Estate. Another fine example of period architecture listed on the National Register of Historic Places is the Audenried Cottage on Tuttle Avenue.
The second of the five victims of the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, Charles Bruder, 27, a Swiss bellhop for the Essex and Sussex Hotel, was killed on July 6, 1916, while swimming approximately 130 yards (120 m) from shore in Spring Lake. The wave of attacks took place between July 1 and July 12, 1916, along 80 miles (130 km) of Atlantic Ocean coastline and inspired the novel Jaws by Peter Benchley and corresponding film by Steven Spielberg.
The borough and its environs are known as the "Irish Riviera" because of the large Irish-American population in the area, with Spring Lake having the highest percentage of any municipality in the United States.
Aside from having been built about 1790, not much. However, the fire hydrant is unusual for Stow, MA. It's one of only three(*) in a town of about 6700 people (that I know of). The reason for that is that Stow has no town water. Every house has its own well, except for a few subdivisions that have common wells. None of the three hydrants in town is currently connected to any water.
This is a private hydrant, originally connected to a pond on a nearby hill. A second house across the street has one of the other two hydrants. The pipes have probably disintegrated long ago.
(*) The local fire department maintains a series of water holes for fighting fires. These are frequently connected to "dry hydrants", a pipe that provides a connection from a stream or pond to a fire truck, but has no water pressure behind it.
A fire hydrant (also known colloquially as a fire plug in the United States or as a johnny pump in New York City, because the firemen of the late 19th century were called Johnnies), is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, suburban and rural areas with municipal water service to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire. Buildings near a hydrant may qualify for an insurance discount since firefighters should be able to more rapidly extinguish a fire on the insured property.
The concept of fire plugs dates to at least the 17th century. This was a time when firefighters responding to a call would dig down to the wooden water mains and hastily bore a hole to secure water to fight fires. The water would fill the hole creating a temporary well, and be transported from the well to the fire by bucket brigades or, later, by hand-pumped fire engines. The holes were then plugged with stoppers, normally redwood, which over time came to be known as fire plugs. The location of the plug would often be recorded or marked so that it could be reused in future fires. This is the source of the colloquial term fire plug still used for fire hydrants today. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, the city installed water mains with holes drilled at intervals, equipped with risers, allowing an access point to the wooden fire plugs from street level.
The invention of a post- or pillar-type fire hydrant is generally credited to Frederick Graff Sr., Chief Engineer of the Philadelphia Water Works around the year 1801. It had a combination hose/faucet outlet and was of "wet barrel" design with the valve in the top. It is said that Graff held the first patent for a fire hydrant, but this cannot be verified because the patent office in Washington D.C. caught on fire in 1836 destroying many patent records from that period in the process. In 1863, Birdsill Holly invented the modern version of the fire hydrant. While Holly was only one of many involved in the development of the fire hydrant, innovations he introduced are largely responsible for the fire hydrant taken for granted today. In 1869, Holly was issued U.S. patent #94749, for an "improved fire hydrant".
Hartshorne Woods Park (Rocky Point Entrance)
1402 Portland Road
Highlands, NJ 07732
Battery Lewis was built in 1942 to compliment an identical battery built at New Yorks Fort Tilden. Battery Lewis housed two 16-inch naval guns, capable of firing 16-inch projectiles. Never fired in an attack, Battery Lewis only let its two guns fire once. After many days of public warning and multiple announcements the guns were fired as a test. Many houses in the surrounding area had windows shattered and reports state that the firing of the guns could be heard in nearby Staten Island, New York. After the firing the guns would remain silent for seven more years until Battery Lewis was declared surplus and following that the removing of the guns. Sitting on the highest point on the East Coast from Southern Maine to the tip of Florida the Atlantic Highlands was a valuable position to defend the New York harbor during WWII.
In World War 2, this base was the site of Battery Issac N. Lewis (Construction Number 116), which consisted of two 16-inch Navy guns, Model MkIIMI on M4 barbette carriages, installed in concrete casemates.
These guns weighed over 128 tons each, were 68 feet long, and could fire a 2,240 lb pound (16-inch diameter) armor-piercing projectile at targets up to 25 miles away. The crewmen worked inside the protection of the concrete casemates and used overhead hoists to load the projectile and the 648 lbs of powder contained within three separate powder bags.
These two guns had an interlocking field-of-fire with the twin 16-inch guns of Fort Tilden that could hit any enemy ship approaching the New York Harbor. These guns had a service life of only 200 rounds each and were only fired during the proof firing and annual service practice. Although German submarines were operating within visual range of this facility, these guns were never fired at an enemy ship. Along with the other fortifications of the New York Harbor, this facility safeguarded the New York Harbor during WWII.
A wall by the highway which I photographed while in traffic (I was the passenger). The flap granting access to the fire hydrant was torn off revealing another corrugated wall behind which I felt mad a nice pattern.
An Air BP hydrant truck is connected to the central aviation fuel pipeline network and provides fuel to the aircraft. There is a significant advantage with hydrant systems when compared to fuel trucks, as fuel trucks must be periodically replenished.
Note the earth grounding connections between the aircraft and the truck, and the flashing red light on the pipe near the ground connection.
An in-depth Hydrant system design document:
www.nfpa.org/assets/files/PDF/Member%20Sections/Kluttz_AI...
During my stay in Edmonton I hooked up with fellow Flickr member Haeretik and he was kind enough to take me on a mini-tour of a few of his favourite locations. While I was busy making like a tourist and photographing hydrants he was taking candid shots of me (amongst other things!).
This is only three exposures instead of my usual five as it was a little windy that day and I didn't fancy my chances of getting five shots perfectly aligned.
The fire hydrant on the left is the source of the texture photos in this series.
Pass Christian, Mississippi. One of the hardest hit places by Hurricane Katrina.