Sentence examples for two hydrants from inspiring English sources

The two hydrants first used by firefighters produced only 323 and 296 gallons per minute of water during subsequent testing, well short of the 1,643 gallons needed to battle a fire of that size, city officials said Friday.

However, this improvement is not sufficient because three hydrants still have high relative pressure deficit and low reliability.

To support the hydraulic characterization of the system and for calibration of the steady-state hydraulic model, field measurements were performed at selected nodes of the network, including four hydrants.

Three fire hydrants closest to the fire were frozen, forcing firefighters to stretch their hoses an extra 200 yards from the road to the fire.

More than three thousand fire hydrants were opened in poorer neighborhoods around the city, by people looking for relief from the heat, and this caused pressure to drop so precipitately that entire buildings were left without water.

A drinking water and electricity distribution system added in 1892 93 gave the town three fire hydrants and minimal street lighting.

But when I went out to do chores that afternoon — wind chill at zero — the hydrant worked fine.

WASHINGTON — Although water pressure in two city fire hydrants was less than 20percentt of what it should have been, city officials said Friday that that was not the reason firefighters could not save a home that contained one of the country's largest private collections of African-American art.

"It's a twenty-four-hour operation," Carmen Perez joked, pointing to the people standing at one of the hydrants.

Charles G. Sturcken, a spokesman for the city's Department of Environmental Protection, said the amount of water escaping from the aqueduct every day was equal to the amount from seven open fire hydrants.

She is almost 65 now, though you would not know it by looking at her, and the summer program she has run for decades to keep neighborhood children safe has shrunk to little more than an open hydrant and two board games nestled on garbage cans.