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  2. Fire hydrant - Wikipedia

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    Fire hydrant in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. A fire hydrant, fireplug, firecock (archaic), [1] hydrant riser or Johnny Pump [2] is a connection point by which firefighters can tap into a water supply. It is a component of active fire protection. Underground fire hydrants have been used in Europe and Asia since at least the 18th ...

  3. Fire pump - Wikipedia

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    A jockey pump, also known as a pressure-maintenance pump, is a small pump connected to a fire suppression system near the fire pump and is intended to maintain pressure in a fire protection piping system. These pumps recover pressures lost from gradual, slow pressure declines in a system due to temperature changes, trapped air escapement, or ...

  4. Glossary of firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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    Fire hydrant See hydrant. Fire pump a pump installed in a building specifically for sprinkler and standpipe water systems. Fire station alert system fire department dispatching system using radio controls to activate remote signals at designated fire stations and to transmit emergency information via audio or digital channels. Fire streams

  5. Rich Californians in fire-prone areas are paying up to $150K ...

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    To keep their homes from being destroyed by fire, homeowners are installing private fire hydrants along with fire pumps, sprinklers, irrigation systems and even private water tanks.

  6. Standpipe (firefighting) - Wikipedia

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    External access point for fire sprinkler and dry standpipe at a building in San Francisco, US Antique wet standpipe preserved at Edison and Ford Winter Estates. A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water ...

  7. Fire hose - Wikipedia

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    Outdoors, it attaches either to a fire engine, fire hydrant, or a portable fire pump. [ 1 ] Indoors, it can permanently attach to a building's standpipe or plumbing system. The usual working pressure of a firehose can vary between 8 and 20 bar (800 and 2,000 kPa ; 116 and 290 psi ) while per the NFPA 1961 Fire Hose Standard, its bursting ...

  8. Water distribution system - Wikipedia

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    An example of a water distribution system: a pumping station, a water tower, water mains, fire hydrants, and service lines [1] [2]. A water distribution system is a part of water supply network with components that carry potable water from a centralized treatment plant or wells to consumers to satisfy residential, commercial, industrial and fire fighting requirements.

  9. Water tender - Wikipedia

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    Water tenders are capable of drafting water from a stream, lake or hydrant. This class of apparatus does not necessarily have enough pumping capacity to power large hose lines (like a fire engine), though it utilizes a smaller pump to draft from bodies of water.

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