A lack of fire hydrants at the airport meant that many burned to death unnecessarily.
Firemen waded through waist-high water in search of fire hydrants, only to find that the town's water system had lost pressure.
New Yorkers, as any cinema-goer will know, love to use fire hydrants to cool off in hot weather.
The brutalist school made much decorative play with technical features such as fire hydrants.
In his series of drawings called Proposals for Monumental Buildings, 1965 69, Oldenburg drew ordinary things fire hydrants, ice-cream bars, bananas as though they were as big as skyscrapers.
In order to function properly, a water distribution system requires several types of fittings, including hydrants, shutoff valves, and other appurtenances.
There was a time, not so many burst fire hydrants ago, when Ian Poulter would talk about the possibility of challenging Tiger Woods at the top of the rankings and the golfing world would fall around laughing, screeching how the deluded soul's claims happened to be even more outlandish than his trousers.
Likewise fire hydrants and several hundred other references to daily American life on British TV, film and stage.
"There was at all times an adequate water supply and no different course would have been taken if the location, for example, of the nearest hydrants had been known.
They allow sections to be shut off and isolated during the repair of broken mains, pumps, or hydrants.
The main purpose of hydrants is to provide water for firefighting.
