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Recent Examples of fire hydrant
Blocking a fire hydrant or parking in a loading zone, on the other hand, could still be a tow-worthy offense.
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Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
The 25-year-old driver of the SUV also struck a fire hydrant, crashed into a fence of a car dealership before the SUV rolled over, police said.
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Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Water was appearing seemingly out of nowhere, and her first instinct was that a fire hydrant had burst nearby.
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Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
16 Apr. 2026
The landing damaged a fire hydrant, and roads in the area were temporarily closed.
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Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2026
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Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
The 25-year-old driver of the SUV also struck a fire hydrant, crashed into a fence of a car dealership before the SUV rolled over, police said.
—
Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Water was appearing seemingly out of nowhere, and her first instinct was that a fire hydrant had burst nearby.
—
Hanna Wickes,
Sacbee.com,
16 Apr. 2026
The landing damaged a fire hydrant, and roads in the area were temporarily closed.
—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire hydrant
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Fire-hydrant red bathrooms are another no-go, driving down the average offer price by $6,000 on average.
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Crews found the building's sprinkler system wasn't working and hydrants on the property lacked water pressure, Tracy Deputy Fire Chief Brian Bagley said.
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This could be rescheduling a doctor's appointment, finding a contractor after a pipe bursts, or picking up your dry cleaning before a flight in the morning.
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With enough money, miles of pipe and drape, and a can-do attitude, anything can be a romantic wedding venue, even Madison Square Garden.
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Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
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Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
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Drivers wear vests which pump cooling liquid through a network of tubes, linked to pumping equipment inside the car.
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The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
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This will involve assessing your system’s indoor and outdoor components, including ducts and dirty filters—which should be replaced every one to three months.
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Invasive ductal carcinoma begins in the ducts and grows outward into surrounding breast tissue, the CDC said.
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Downtown Sacramento businesses remain skeptical that the state’s July return-to-office mandate affecting roughly 95,000 employees will actually materialize, even as foot traffic sits at 85% of April 2019 levels and local leaders rethink the urban core’s heavy reliance on office space.
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The concerns have drawn the attention of city leaders.
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But the outlets require frequent inspections and maintenance when used continuously, which means that one of the four conduits will routinely be offline.
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But the journalist should not become a conduit for disinformation.
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His fireplug vitality surrendered only to his untamed playing, boogie feel and volumes upon volumes of mesmerizing riffs.
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At 41 inches tall and 161 pounds per side, this fireplug of a speaker delivers impressive dynamic range at realistic (live music) levels and will admirably fill all but the most gigantic spaces with detailed yet unfatiguing sound.
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“Fire hydrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20hydrant. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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