Click on the pictures to enlarge. On the first two, you will see a red flag on a metal rod attached to the fire hydrant. The use of this device is obvious in the winter photo.
I've never seen a fire truck actually use a hydrant in the winter, and I'm not sure how the digging out is handled -- I imagine that one fire fighter arrives with a shovel and starts to dig at least until he gets down to the valve.
And the use of this sign is also obvious. This one is just about a block up the hill from my apartment. Once every couple of years, someone helps himself to it; I picture bear xing signs decorating walls of tourists in areas where there are few wild animals.
Click on the pictures to enlarge. On the first two, you will see a red flag on a metal rod attached to the fire hydrant. The use of this device is obvious in the winter photo.
I've never seen a fire truck actually use a hydrant in the winter, and I'm not sure how the digging out is handled -- I imagine that one fire fighter arrives with a shovel and starts to dig at least until he gets down to the valve.
And the use of this sign is also obvious. This one is just about a block up the hill from my apartment. Once every couple of years, someone helps himself to it; I picture bear xing signs decorating walls of tourists in areas where there are few wild animals.
You're right...we don't see any of those things in our neighborhood!
ReplyDeleteThat is very interesting Maya's Granny. I never thought the bear signs are next to a house. Nice surprise when you step out to see a bear!!
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ReplyDeleteThe bear signs are placed where the bears cross. This house sits in a place where the hill has a more gentle slope, and the bears have created a path from above the road that goes down to the creek.
We have some opposites: red hydrants with yellow flags attached. I'm not sure that we really need them, however.
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