Beginning on Friday February 5th and stretching into Saturday February 6th, a record setting snowstorm has swept through Caln Township leaving residents the very tiring task of having to dig out their driveways, sidewalks, and vehicles. It has left many of the hydrants buried and hidden for our responding fire apparatus.
A few years ago, Thorndale Girl Scout Troop Local 1368 took on a major project to raise funds and purchase markers that will help responding fire apparatus to locate hydrants in deep snow and low visibility conditions. The markers extend three feet into the air above the fire hydrant and have reflective tape wrapped around them, but over the course of the year many of these markers have been pushed down and bent over by people walking past leaving them useless in deep snow.
We need your help to shovel out any fire hydrant that may be located around you to not only help us find the hydrant, but to make it much quicker for us to connect our hoses in case of a fire. Precious minutes may be wasted while our Firefighters have to dig out hydrants in a emergency, when you could help us help you.
If you live near a fire hydrant please dig it out for us, we hope we do not need to use it, but in an emergency it will be a big help to our Firefighters.
Fire Hydrant with Reflective Marker Buried Under Deep Snow
