Fire hydrant, a fixed fire fighting facility. Its main role is to control combustible materials, isolate combustion materials, and eliminate the source of ignition. There are indoor fire hydrants and outdoor fire hydrants.

The fire hydrant is very common in daily life. You need to pay attention to the placement and use of the fire hydrant. When there is a fire, and the firefighters are too late to arrive at the scene, you can use the hydrant to save yourself to avoid risking your life.

Placement of fire hydrant

1. Fire hydrants should be placed in public shared spaces such as corridors or halls. Generally, it will be inside the wall of the above space, and no kind of decoration can be done to it. The hydrant should be required to have a conspicuous marking and no obstacle should be set in front of it to avoid affecting the opening of the hydrant door.

2. Fire hydrants are generally not located in the room. Because it is not in line with the regulations of firefighting and is not conducive to the timely rescue of firefighters.

How to use fire hydrants?

Open the hydrant door and press the internal fire alarm button. The button is used to alarm and start the fire pump.

One person connects the water gun head and water belt to run to the fire. Another person connects the water belt and valve mouth, and open the valve counterclockwise water spray can.

You can also do this if you are the only one. After opening the hydrant, take out the fire hose and extend and unfold it toward the point of origin of the fire. After attaching the water gun, connect it directly to the water source. You need to hold the head of the water gun with your hand and open the valve in time to put out the fire.

It is a common belief that as soon as a fire truck arrives at a fire, it can immediately put out the fire with water. In fact, it is not. The fire department equipped with a considerable part of the fire truck is not with water, such as a high fire truck, a rescue truck, a fire fighting truck, etc. They must be used with the firefighting truck.

And some fire trucks, because of their own limited water capacity, are in a fire when the an urgent need to find water. At this time, the fire hydrant plays a huge water supply function.

However, in real life, due to some units and individuals with little awareness of fire safety, fire hydrants are damaged. Some hydrants located by the main street are buried by construction works.

Some hydrants are surrounded by vehicles and cannot be connected at all. Some of them even had their water supply interrupted, which seriously threatened the smooth operation of firefighting. Once a fire occurs, these hydrants will not be able to play their proper role.

The fire hydrant is an important tool to protect firefighting forces. Its inadequacy and damage pose a serious threat to the safety of human life and property.

Therefore, we hope we care for other urban public facilities, but also pay attention to the "safety" of the fire hydrant!