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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFOX News Blocks Fire Hydrant at 5-alarm Church Fire. Anyone Surprised?
link to page w/ photo above: http://intending_acceleration.kinja.com/fox-news-van-crew-parks-blocking-fire-hydrant-in-front-1178600698
link to Boston Globe story allegedly about the same event: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/21/three-alarm-fire-strikes-building-boston/OGSGC1wQVAf2syDCB7L7UP/story.html
I can't say these two are from the same event for certain. But it wouldn't surprise me.
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FOX News Blocks Fire Hydrant at 5-alarm Church Fire. Anyone Surprised? (Original Post)
dballance
Aug 2013
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gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)1. Typical of fucking fox (faux snooze)
RC
(25,592 posts)2. Get a bunch of firemen on this side, lift, till it tips over, for room to get to the hydrant.
Works for me.
Bust out all the windows first in an attempt to move it.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)3. how sad.
It was such a beautiful building.
Oh, and fuck faux news.
Oh, and fuck faux news.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)4. They are scum.
CincyDem
(6,418 posts)6. Do what they do to a personal auto in many cities...
...break the front driver and passenger windows and run the hose through. Happened in Chicago all the time. And my coincidence, that hose always seemed to be the last hose wrapped up after the fire. No fun for the owner but a very powerful learning experience.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)7. They should have done this