Really peculiar question, would appreciate answers ASAP

[nekokoban]

... who do you call, when you're walking down to get the mail and see that there's a fire hydrant unplugged, and is gushing copious amounts of water into the street?

No one else seems to be around, and I'm not sure exactly who needs to be notified of this. o_o;;;;

Comments

[tiercel]

Your municipal water department. (In other words, whoever you pay the water bill to.)

[nekokoban]

Waha, thanks. >_< Just called and the supervisor was apparently Not At His Desk At The Moment, but at least I've left the message. Hopefully, it means he's already been notified, but egh.

Thanks! :D;;;;

[tdei.livejournal.com]

...if I were at school, I'd be running for the Maintenance phone number.

I'm guessing perhaps the town/city/local maintenence or whatnot? ::uncertain:: (well, a guess is better than nothing... ;-; ::cling!::)

...hope you get that plugged up quick before it floods the area and soaks into houses. (Someone had run a truck or something over a sprinker/hydrant at school last year and it flooded the area, soaking into some of the nearest apartments.)

[nekokoban]

Nope, I'm at home right now -- my neighborhood has community mailboxes, and ours is set up about two houses down -- which means that the water's all going down hill, and mine's out of the way, but still. Unattended gushing fire hydrant = not good, I would say. >_>;;;;

[tdei.livejournal.com]

♥~

XD;;; ...yes. Not very good. I mean. They are your neighbors and it'd be somewhat impolite and inconsiderate if you see a threat of water floodage and blatantly ignore it... (just imagine what'd it'd be like if you were on the receiving end of such regard). X3

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

You might try calling the fire department, too... it's their hydrant, after all.

[nekokoban]

It was taken care of within about half an hour of when I called, so hey. [grins] It was one of those things where it was like ... dude, I've always seen the fire hydrant there, but I didn't realize, yanno, FIRE HYDRANT until it was gushing water up to my ankles. >_>

... and of course, tonight's the night where there's lightning like crazy and we're THISCLOSE! to having rain. Heh. XD

[anax.livejournal.com]

Odds are that it was opened intentionally. Sometimes the water company does this for various reasons, and unless it looks like there is damage to the hydrant, they probably did it on purpose.

[nekokoban]

There was no damage -- in fact, the cap was sitting right next to the hydrant. >_> It just struck me as peculiar, since there was NO ONE there monitoring it, and there was a stream ankle-deep when I tried to get to the mailbox. >_>

Though, by the time my parents got home from work, it was capped, which was good. >_> Bah. XD;