Please shovel your fire hydrants.
Lt. Mike Norman, of the Cleveland Division of Fire, said firefighters ran into some challenges getting water in these wintry conditions while putting out a house fire on Signet Avenue.
“That's one thing this time of year, the hydrants can be difficult to access. We ask people to shovel their hydrants out if they think about it, or if they can do it safely, give us three feet of space and open it up to the street so we can find it quicker in an emergency,” said Norman. “And it limits the amount and the duration that you can work. It's more challenging, your coat gets wet, your coat will freeze and that makes it more challenging when you're climbing ladders when you're breaking windows when you're advancing hose line. Everything that we're doing becomes more difficult because of the weight of the ice on your back,” said Norman.
“We're driving on the same roads that everybody else is driving on. So it may take us a little longer sometimes. We want to be careful. I always remind people to move right if they see the lights. Move right for lights because we want that left lane, we want that high-speed lane so we can get where we're going,” said Norman.“We’re Cleveland firefighters. This isn't our first time-fighting fires in this weather.
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