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

[Todd S.]

Ours here in Washington County, and Hagerstown area have a green bottom with 
various colored tops, (gray, white, yellow,etc.) depicting what size water 
line they are fed from for flow rates. The fiberglass whips attached are 
only for locating the hydrant. According to my contacts at the water 
dept.,and fire marshals office, hydrants are not connected to the sprinkler 
system. If the building alarm trips when a hydrant is opened, and the fire 
alarm system sees a drop in pressure, it is to sense that it may have been 
tampered with, and does not have enough water to protect the building-so it 
sends out a trouble alarm-not an actual fire alarm,( at least it's not 
supposed to, depending on the programming by the alarm tech). As far as the 
college only having the whips, it was probably a choice of the college for 
quick locating for the fire dept., and missing them for the snow plows. Also 
another factor is the almighty dollar- every jurisdiction doesn't always 
feel the importance of finding them in a true emergency.

Thank you all for a great forum,

Todd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <odyslim at comcast.net>
To: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
Cc: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>; "b thom" <b_thom at juno.com>
Sent: February 07, 2010 20:34
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Dig out your fire hydrants!/ More thoughts


> Here in the Maryland suburbs, one can be in 4 counties within 10 minutes.
> Howard Co is yellow, AA is Red I forget the others but remember some here 
> in
> town being painted white lately. How smart is that! Oh, and the Fancy 
> stainless
> steel ones dont show up very well either
>
> Regards, Scott.
> W3CV, AA Co. MD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
> To: b thom <b_thom at juno.com>, scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:00:21 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Dig out your fire hydrants!/ More thoughts
>
>
> 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...
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 13:06:48 -0500
>> From: b_thom at juno.com
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Dig out your fire hydrants!/ More thoughts
>>
>> It seems to me that some mulicipality around here has those red and white
>> stakes mounted on their fire hydrants to make their locations obvious in
>> drifts. Alexandria does not do that.
>
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