Fascinated with Fire Hydrants

Day 74 Stop and Look 365

This hydrant really made me  “Stop and Look.” It looked out of place in my local park. I was so fascinated with it. I decided I needed to discover more about fire hydrants. There were two men credited with its invention, Frederick Graft, Chief of Philadelphia Water Works and Birdsill Holly, a hydraulic engineer. The official patient for the hydrant was lost in a fire. The color of the hydrant is very important. Red and yellow tell the capacity of water per minute that flows through the hydrant. Reds can handle 500 – 900 gallons per minute. Water that comes from a public water system is yellow. If the hydrant is violet (which I have never seen), it comes from a lake or pond. Green hydrants have superpowers with a water flow capacity of 1,000 – 1,499 per minute. If the hydrant is black you better grab some buckets, the hydrant is dead. Now, I bet you will never walk by a hydrant without thinking about at least one of these facts. Or you can just concentrate on how interesting they are constructed.