[Scan-DC] Dig out your fire hydrants!/ More thoughts

[b_thom at juno.com]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:00:21 -0500 Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
writes:
> 
> Some hydrants that are tied to building sprinkler systems/alarm 
> systems have red and white whip antennas on them... I've always been 
> curious about how that system works, but I believe that if the 
> hydrant is opened it will trip the fire alarm... seems to me I 
> remember once where a landscaper or pool contractor opened one of 
> those hydrants somewhere and set off an alarm that called the FD...

Oh, so that's what that means. I'm sure that hydrants up by Northern
Virginia Community College have the red and white whip antennas on them,
but I don't see that done citywide. I couldn't figure it out, as surely
there is not so much snow in northern Virginia that the hydrants
disappear in the snow banks.This isn't Wyoming.
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