Adopting a Fire Hydrant – Yours!

NOTICE: SHOVEL READY PROJECT!

Certainly the best (or worst if you so choose) weather in years for advertising that people get out and shovel out their neighborhood Fire Hydrant.

With cold temperatures and mountains of snow burying everything including your local neighborhood fire hydrants people are getting sporadic and often unsupported messages to clean out hydrants while at the same time seeing pictures of fire fighters shoveling out hydrants. People think the fire department is supposed to do this chore?

With over 70% of all fire fighters being volunteers and having a life (sometimes) of their own it is hard to imagine people not wanting to help out by taking a few minutes to clear snow away from hydrants that might be used to save their lives and worldly possessions.

But surprisingly not so, every year seems like the same old, same old…

Maybe you don’t have a hydrant where you live but maybe there is one near where you work? Shovel that one out. How about where you worship? Shovel that one out too. You can envision the rest, family friends, invalid homes….. Don’t forget to dig out access to dry stand pipes in your local pond too. Mention to the snowplow contractor that seems to bank up all the snow on your hydrant to find someplace else…..and explain why.

We’ve made it easier for people to get involved directly by constrcting a Winter Fire Safety Kit that includes posters and forms to “adopt” a hydrant easily.  We took the work out of that aspect of it.