Fire Hydrants

[dennisb66]

Having nothing better to do i read up on Fire hydrant locations etc.I was surprised to read the following sentence........
"Buildings near a hydrant may qualify for an insurance discount since firefighters should be able to more rapidly extinguish a fire on the insured property"

I have never heard of this before and wonder if any readers have ever obtained a discount.

[NoMercy]

I once heard that in Michigan (I think it was Michigan) it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrants. I mean, as if you would....

[Bbbananas]

lol NoM - as if indeed !

[waterboatman]

That sounds like the 'ole US of A right enough!

[stoofur]

What about a crocodile?

[Bbbananas]

I think that's ok.

[beejay1124]

yup-stoofur
i think you are allowed to chain an alligator to a crocodile

[Bbbananas]

So you could get round that law by chaining the alligator to the crocodile, then the crocodile to the fire hydrant?
Cool.

[NoMercy]

In the US, Salla, you'd likely still get 30-Life in a Maximum Security Jail for that.

[Bbbananas]

Better not risk it then. Just in case.

[dennisb66]

Difficult to tie anything to them in UK as they are in the ground,but of course you knew this didn't you ?

[redcrx]

where did you read that?
i cant imagine that locating a hydrant would really delay the fire service more than a minute or so. They would start to fight the fire, if safe, almost immediately after arriving.
Would they also reduce premiums if you were within 2 mins of station? or increase them if youre in a village 15 mins from a retained station?

[dennisb66]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_hydrant

[redcrx]

thanks, dennis. I wonder if this is just in the states.

[Bbbananas]

Dennis - have you really nothing better to do? ;-)