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serious question of safety is being asked after a fire hydrant failed during a Hazleton firefight in the case of a fire there's a chance the hydrant in front of your home won't function is the fire hydrant in your neighborhood working hundreds upon hundreds remain out of service in Kansas attic defective hydrants risk lives while technology and other firefighting equipment has been revamped the hydrant has not been redesigned in over a century which ones work in which was done but two fire hydrants the fire hydrant in front of this hydrant a right in front of the house was not working so a former New York City firefighter has designed a hydrant that is virtually indestructible as a firefighter New York City firefighter I recognized a need that there had to be a change in the reliability of a fire hydrant once in a hundred years there has been no real significant change even though we know where the issues and problems are well fire hydrants are the critical part of the fire extinguisher n't tactic a hydrant is as important as a firefighter we have standards we get to the scene within four minutes we want ahead we have set up time which means connecting to a hydrant stretching always line another four minutes and we expect that water to be on the fire in eight minutes and when the hydrant is broken we don't accomplish that through better engineering and better materials we've come up with the solution it's called the single act spot and fire hydrant here's your basic standard conventional fire hydrant and you can see how the corrosion on there exists because they just put regular paint on there it's totally vulnerable accessible these things get damaged and bent these can get cross threaded they throw debris inside but the integrity of this hydrant is easily compromised because it's it's everything's accessible and exposed to the elements what I've done is I become stuck to the fire hydrant and identified all the vulnerable parts of a hydrant that are known to break down and fail you know consistently now you can see obviously just by appearance how much different they look you can notice that the operate with what is going to come out is much higher which is better for the firefighter to be able to put this thing on there you have the snow Pole okay and all the into integral parts are encapsulated inside the hydrant so you can't there's nothing where the elements can get to it or you can't put wrenches it's not know where to put a wrench on you need a special tool to do that okay so what all's I do is come up with this tool crack that open like that spin that off take that off now everything's out of your way the height of the person's working order if I want to get water comes out like that and then take the caps up they come right off inside up on top you see this grease fitting so it's very simple you know less complicated hydrant and we're within 10 to 20 percent of the cost of a traditional hydrant so we're not even that much more but we do so much more so it's it cradle to grave you can't afford not to have our Hydra in the ground so we're in about a dozen US states right now we have 150 hydrants in the ground in those 12 states and the reason there aren't more is because typically a municipality want to buy one or two and put it through its paces over a four season cycle and determine for themselves let the fire department work on them extensively and determine that you know it doesn't leak it doesn't freeze in the wintertime it won't rust or corrode or break down and then once that happens they start to order more hydrants people don't realize the need for hide until it's their house it's on fire and also that hydrants not working and people yelling screaming out of the building and firefighters are putting their lives at risk you know and it's unnecessary it's something that time has come people believe they're just an ordinary fixture in the street they are life-saving Fire Department appliances they shouldn't be used you know for washing cars or for cleaning streets people do not understand the importance of these types when you're at a fire and a hydrant doesn't work and the firefighters are standing around and no one can get water out of the hose then you understand how important a fire hydrant is you