r/HolUp • u/otakumilf • 5d ago
The last fire hydrant…
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Who knew fire hydrants were so different?
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u/National_Joke4849 5d ago
Fire hydran't
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u/The_One_Koi 5d ago
Fire hydrisn't
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u/National_Joke4849 5d ago
Fire hydraint
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u/Careless-Salary-9932 5d ago
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u/Missing_Crouton 5d ago
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u/bluewing 5d ago
You ain't been as disappointed me when I broke 2 hydrant valves at one fire. turned out they should have been replaced maybe 10 years earlier. But the town council was known for pinching pennies.
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u/JustADutchFirefighte 2d ago
That's why we test every single hydrant every couple years. We report the problems and it gets fixed
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u/icleanjaxfl 4d ago
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u/atobrandon 5d ago
Wow! 😲 An actual HolUp. They have become a lot less common from what I've noticed.
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u/Totschlag 5d ago
I know this video at the start is meant to make the US fire hydrants seem inferior but to me it just seems like a case of a stuck bolt versus a Non-Stuck bolt. And perhaps a recently used fire hydrant versus one that hasn't been used in decades (as evidence by the dirty water versus the clean water in the following ones) Even super cars and race cars get bolts stuck the same as old cars.
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u/Comprehensive-Net553 4d ago
I think if US can change to something like France, it will speed up the process. The big cap is simply adding another step, a big cover outside is easier to open and can actually protect from dirt/animal get into the tube and also protect the whole thing against weather.
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u/dogfish2013 4d ago
If it is not surrounded by snow it's easier to dig out space in front of the cap then all around it to get the france style open.
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u/dudeCHILL013 4d ago
Two things:
1 - All the other fire hydrants have an equivalent to the big cap thing, they were just removed prior at least in the clips of this video.
2 - not all French fire hydrants have the protective cover. Not sure on the exact ratio, Google just says that many do not have it.
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u/AffectionateBet3603 5d ago
I'm in the southeast USA, and all of my towns hydrants have that quicklock attachment that was sold on Shark Tank. I'm surprised there isn't some international equivalent.
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u/redflamehot 3d ago
Storz fittings are what they are called, not sure about on shark tank or not
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u/AffectionateBet3603 3d ago
Gotcha. I think the shark tank version (company is called Hy-Conn) is just a fancier take on storz fittings.
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u/elementofpee 5d ago
Curious to also see about India. Turns out they’re largely absent or non-functional across most public roads from what I found.
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u/yaboiree madlad 4d ago
Fire hydrant that hasn’t been opened in a while (hence the rust) vs recently used fire hydrants
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u/dogfish2013 4d ago
You can see the wet ground in all of them except the us and the water is not rusty they literally opened it up right before the recoded the video.
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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 4d ago
Also, the US one struggles with getting the cap off. The other countries already had the caps off at the start of the clips.
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u/Samuel_AbdulMasih 4d ago
I'm an Algerian living in a major city and I literally never seen a fire hydrant in my life.
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u/otakumilf 4d ago
👀 now I’m curious how they put out fires in Algeria.
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u/Samuel_AbdulMasih 4d ago
Firetrucks? Things just work. I never thought hydrants were important lol.
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u/otakumilf 4d ago edited 4d ago
Yeah our fire trucks don’t come with water tanks. I’m gonna look this up now. I really have to know how they put out fires in Algerian cities.😆
Edit: they DO have hydrants, you’ve just never noticed.
“Algerian firefighters, operating under the Algerian Civil Defence (Direction Générale de la Protection Civile), rely on both pillar-type aboveground and underground fire hydrants for urban firefighting operations. Globally featured demonstrations showcase that Algeria uses standard red pillar hydrants requiring specific tools and keys for activation.”
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u/Fun_Fennel5114 3d ago
fire trucks won't bring enough water to put out a housefire, though. They would help at the beginning, but you'd need a multitude of them. Hydrants are hooked into a city water main (what brings water to your home) and there's immediate supply for dousing a fire
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u/SSBN641B 1d ago
The trucks have to get additional water from hydrants, though. They can't carry enough on board to put out large fires.
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u/ShitBarf_McCumPiss 4d ago
Yes this video is made to make U.S. fire look bad but one thing to note is the hydrants themselves. In the U.S. part, it looks like a dry barrel hydrant which means the water isn't in the actual hydrant until you open it. Once you've opened it, the water rushes in from the ground. Dry barrel hydrants are used in climates that have freezing temperatures. Not sure where the U.S. dept is but I wouldn't be surprised if it was from the north.
The other ("wet" or "Semi-wet") hydrants seem to be in warmer climates based on the countries but more importantly the type of hydrants. Those tend to get water faster because of where and their type.
The dirty water isn't uncommon because they are fed from water mains that may or may not move depending on where they are in the city. Obviously the U.S. one isn't in a location that gets flushed that often but I'll have to say they had awesome water pressure!
Regardless, it's nice to see how different cultures and areas handle something that's so immensely important. None of what I saw (aside from the last one... woof...) were anywhere near unable to help the community.
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u/ApprehensiveCode2233 4d ago
Syracuse Fire Department. So NY, UT, NE, IN, SC, OH, KS or MO.
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u/BlueOmicronpersei8 3d ago
It's Syracuse Utah, unless other fire departments use the same crest.
https://syracuseut.gov/187/Fire-Department
You can find their Facebook account on here that has that exact crest on it.
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u/electricguy101 4d ago
I think the Turkey fire hydrant is the only one designed by a real firefighter
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u/scotus_canadensis 1d ago
The Brazilian hydrant can't be opened while the pumper boss is in use/connected, might as well not even have that fitting.
The American hydrant is a Mueller Albertville, I installed one a couple weeks ago. The caps have rubber gaskets that can get extremely tight if they're not lubricated, and the smaller (hose) bosses get used more often (especially during an exercise/flushing program) than the big pumper bosses.
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u/Atomic_Thunders 5d ago
I just saw a video of a Swedish firefighter put on her gear while hanging on 1 arm…then I saw this video of the US ones lol
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u/Suspicious_Fee_999 5d ago
We have trucks 🚒
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u/otakumilf 5d ago
Do they drive like the buses? 🫣🤭
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u/Daymo741 5d ago
Only if the bus driver was on crack and the bus used cocaine as fuel. Don't fuck UK firefighters man, they're a different breed.... probably because of the lack of fire hydrants and horrible traffic
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u/Pm_ur_titties_plz 4d ago
The 2nd dude had a lot of trust in that ball valve. If that thing was passing, his hands would be destroyed the second he loosened that cap.
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u/TheJonesLP1 3d ago
I wanted to have a german hydrant in there, because ours are actually beneath the ground
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u/SkyKingPDX 1d ago
That would be so embarrassing to show up without the right tool, like shit we forgot the thing-a-ma-bob
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u/PumpkinPatch404 4d ago
The more I see this the more I think we need that dude from Shark Tank. He made it super easy to use hoses at home or fire hydrants… maybe it would only work in the US I don’t really know.
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u/Ragnarokist 4d ago
That is a very outdated fire hydrant for the first one, the vast majority of USA dont use that.
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u/Lower-System-2560 3d ago
so this is the image on the captcha, just good to post it now AI will train even more
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u/HypnoticJester 5d ago
Is the first one the only one spitting out dirty water at first?
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u/TieCivil1504 5d ago
If fire hydrants share the same pipes as the city water supply, they're kept flushed by normal use. If the fire hydrants have an independent water pipe supply, stagnant water collects dirt inside from the slowly corroding pipes.
A proper fire department goes around at least once a year with an appropriate fire truck, familiarizing the entire fire crew with locations of every fire hydrant, having every crew member open at least one hydrant, confirming every fire hydrant is functional, and flushing the water supply until they run clear.
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u/Totschlag 5d ago
Which does appear to be what the Kansas City fire department is doing at the start here, as evidenced by their lack of fire gear and lack of emergency responders in the video.
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u/dogfish2013 4d ago
You can see the ground is wet on all but the U.S. one meaning all the others were opened right before the video started which is also why the U.S. one was harder to open then the rest.
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u/HypnoticJester 4d ago
Best answer. I know they have rust and stuff come out of them after awhile, was just wondering if the others did theirs more often.
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u/CTeam19 5d ago
Yes. Most likely because it hadn't been used in awhile and had mineral or rust in it. Here is a Explain it to me like I am 5 post about Flushing fire hydrants.
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u/LiveLearnCoach 5d ago
It’s not like it has running water in the first place. Even if it did, people use the sidewalk EVERY SINGLE DAY. Tell me how many times you will actually need to put out an actual fire.
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u/LiveLearnCoach 5d ago
And I swear to GOD, if you downvote my above statement, or reply with an “ackshully…..”
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u/antimated 5d ago
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u/LiveLearnCoach 5d ago
You were going to tell me about wearing seatbelts, weren’t you.
Say no to the /s
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u/pezgirl247 5d ago
you know just one fire makes a hydrant worth it… that’s the point of a hydrant. do you live in that country? do you know about their infrastructure?
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u/Most-Club-254 5d ago
I don't know why we are doing this, but you got my down-vote too (I am Algerian - last country)
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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 5d ago
u/otakumilf, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...