Did you know that fire hydrants are color coded?

[Connonym]

And the color represents the pressure and fittings of the hydrant so that the fire dept can tell at a glance the water power they're going to have? Did everyone already know this except me?

FIRE HYDRANT COLOR CODES

BLUE
AA
1500 AND UP

GREEN
A
1000 -- 1499

YELLOW
B
500 -- 999

RED
C
LESS THAN 500

WHITE
DEAD NO FLOW

[Shine]

1. I had no idea. Thanks for the newsflash, Connonym

:D

I bet the dogs don't care about the colors, though. heh.

[Connonym]

3. I had recently noticed that the hydrants in my neighborhood were all painted yellow

and my daughter asked me why they weren't red. I told her that the yellow didn't show the pee, lol. But I was curious so I did later google it to find out.

[Shine]

4. Ah, so the urine inspired you, eh?

:evilgrin:

[qnr]

2. Not me, and I've had loads of fire-related training.

Of course, as a general rule, we didn't have a lot of "hydrants" onboard the ships. Thanks for the info (though it's slightly confusing, I think the insertion of some LFs or '-------'s might help)

[xmas74]

5. I did

but I used to be a police, fire and EMS dispatcher. We had a map in dispatch of each town we dispatched for. On each street there was a hydrant we had a push pin and they were all color coded.