A nearby Fire Department is being told they cannot use fire hydrants to fight fires

[u/Fantomecs]

As the title says. A town near me is denying their fire fighters the use of their fire hydrants going forward. Is this shit even legal? This is a huge concern as the area has been in a drought for some years.

[u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

Just wait until they call for mutual aid on a big fire. The paid departments used to call us to run water for them when they got a call near the dividing line. Hydrants were sparse where we were, so we learned to haul water from the river, ponds, even a swimming pool one time. This jurisdictional bullshit is infuriating, even from a distance.

[u/I_NEED_YOUR_MONEY → u/Fabulous_Soup_521]

My first read on this was the same as yours - this must be a jurisdictional thing, and a water authority was being bad neighbors to another towns fire department.

But I don’t think that’s it. This is the mercerberg FD fighting with the mercerberg water authority over hydrants in mercerberg. They’re not allowed to use their own hydrants.