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May 29, 2007

Go Home Already: Back at It

>> We still haven’t reached the end of the fire hydrant fiasco, it seems. Turns out that when WASA completed an inventory of more than 9,000 fire hydrants, they realized the city’s hydrants are made by nine to ten different manufacturers — a situation which could mean that if neighboring fire departments like Montgomery, Prince George’s and Fairfax counties, which all use a standard hydrant, are dispatched to help fight a blaze, they could…

 
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