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GEYSER 1:10 -1-
afternoon, in 6ntil this -.. this fire hydrant M the 7- thousand block of Oak Grove Road was as well behaved as any of the thousands of other such hydrants in the Department'is Fort Worth. But, shortly after Fire Pumper Number 17 subjected it to a test; it literally blew its top. The result is a spectacular geyser of water spitting some 20 feet in the air- water-soaked clods of earth. TRUCK UP The Water Department does not drag its feet in getting wounded Ju.l( a crew en the scene& . hhe hydrant is at the rate of 1-thousand gallons a minute, and the street is in danger of being damaged. A special compass locates the cutoff, and thw workmen begin taming the runaway fire hydrant. The plug is fed from a six-inch pipe that branches off a main line. The water is under heavy pressuee, and the geyser is eroding the fill away from the pavement. 50-thousand gallons of wasted water later, the geyser is dead.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth Fire Department testing fire hydrants in the area.
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