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Show Pi. Grove City Converts All Fire Hydrants to Standard by Harold Smith PI. Grove Water-Sewer Dept. When fire departments were first organized and developed in the larger cities of the nation, there were no rules or regulations regula-tions to standardize the equipment equip-ment manufactured to control fires. The result was that each city adopted nozzles, hydrants, and hose couplings which were cut with a different number of threads per inch. It was natural then that some smaller cities, but not all, followed fol-lowed the pattern set by the larger lar-ger city under whose influence they came. In our case and that of most towms in Utah, we adopted adopt-ed the Salt Lake City type, having hav-ing six threads per inch. - To clear up the confusion and get back on the right track, legislation leg-islation was enacted requiring all manufacturers to produce and sell only equipment which used threads per inch, to be known as the national standard thread. Thus all fire fighting equipment equip-ment purchased for the last several sev-eral years has carried a different differ-ent thread than was found on the older pieces. Therefore the Fire Department had to employ adapters to make fine hose of one thread fit onto hydrants and nozzles of another thread. The whole tiling created a state oi" confusion that was enough to drive Firemen crazy when they were urnl.'r the pressure of seeing a residi nt's home burning. With the arrival of the new fire truck with everything on it being made National Standard, such a condition was intolerable. So, the water-sewer department which is responsible for operation opera-tion and care of fire hydrants, has had every hydrant converted to the national standard thread. Your homes will be a little bit safer now. All fruit growers of the city, who have in the past purchased water for spraying, when nrm' was available in th: irrigation system, are hereby warned that they must contact the water department de-partment and have their hose connection inspected for proper thread before they can be permitted per-mitted to connect to any fire plug. We cannot tolerate having someone's home burned because a fire plug nozzle has been stripped strip-ped by the use of the wrong couplings. |