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During Baltimore's Great Fire of 1904, firefighters from other cities arrived to help, but many couldn't connect their hoses to Baltimore's hydrants because the fittings used different threads.
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time2lose lemmy.world time2lose@lemmy.world
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Lysergid lemmy.ml Lysergid@lemmy.ml
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Goddam techno-fascist propaganda. They want to make their threaing standard to make us buy their hoses and make our industry fall. They won’t tells how to thread our hoses.

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41 slrpnk.net greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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There's a handful of Chicago suburbs that use a 5" pumper on the hydrant instead of a 5 1/4" pumper. Most fire fire departments around there have a few fittings on each truck but, always a surprise when you forget.

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