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A firehose is a thick, high-pressure hose used to carry water or other fire retardant (such as foam) to a fire to extinguish it. Outdoors, it is attached either to a fire engine or a fire hydrant. Indoors, it can be permanently attached to a building's standpipe or plumbing system. Picture of an indoor firehose File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Picture of an indoor firehose File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Look up hose in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Water is an odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. ...
A fire retardant is a substance that helps to delay or prevent combustion. ...
Just-lit match Fire is a self-sustaining oxidation process accompanied by heat and light in the form of a glow or flames. ...
A fire apparatus, fire engine or fire truck usually refers to a vehicle designed to fight fires. ...
City Fire Hydrant A fire hydrant (also known colloquially as a fire plug in the USA or as a johnny pump in New York City), is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, suburban and rural areas with municipal water service to enable...
A freestanding fire standpipe at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA A standpipe is a type of rigid water piping which is put in multi-storey buildings or placed in the street to be used in the event of a fire. ...
A plumber wrench for working on pipes and fittings Plumbing, from the Latin for lead (plumbum), is the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures for potable water systems and the drainage of waste. ...
The usual working pressure of a firehose can vary between 8 bar and 20 bar ((0.8 to 2.0 MPa), while its bursting pressure can be up to 63 bar (6.3 MPa). (This level of pressure emitted by the hose can actually break in a weaker brick wall.) The bar (symbol bar) and the millibar (symbol mbar, also mb) are units of pressure. ...
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure or stress (also: Youngs modulus and tensile strength). ...
This high pressure also allows the fire hose to serve as an effective form of crowd control, including most notably by Bull Connor in the Deep South of the United States against civil rights protestors. French mobile gendarmes doing riot control. ...
Theophilus Eugene Bull Connor (July 11, 1897, Selma, Alabama – March 10, 1973) was a police official in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama during the American Civil Rights Movement and a staunch advocate of racial segregation. ...
The U.S. Southern states or the South, also known colloquially as Dixie, constitute a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States, with its own unique heritage, historical perspective, customs, musical styles, and cuisine. ...
Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...
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