Press release:
With the recent snowfall City fire crews have been out daily looking for buried fire hydrants.
During one trip down a street, they came across an elderly woman attempting to shovel the end of her driveway alone. The crew of Engine 12 stopped to assist her and the moment was caught by a City of Batavia Fire Department Facebook follower.
Over the next 24 hours this photo flashed across computer, phone and tablet screens 10,000 times resulting in 440 likes, 29 comments, and has been shared 16 times! All records since the Fire Department launched its Facebook page in September of 2014.
Chief Jim Maxwell said "He is proud of the men and women of the City of Batavia Fire Department who routinely go above and beyond for the residents of the City."
Lt. Fix who administers the Fire Department's Facebook page said "Since this photo was added, we have received others who have 'adopted a hydrant' in their neighborhood."
Keeping hydrants clear of snow can save valuable time for firefighters arriving at the scene of a fire.
If your neighborhood has adopted a hydrant, feel free to share it with the "City of Batavia Fire Department, NY" Facebook page.
Great capture of some of
Great capture of some of Batavia's finest displaying 'the right stuff'.
When I was a kid, this was a
When I was a kid, this was a great community project for the local boy scouts troop.
We went around after snow storms, and then once a week, and cleared the hydrants.
Raymond. When I was a kid, we
Raymond. When I was a kid, we had creeks & streams, not hydrants.
My father grew up in Niagara
My father grew up in Niagara Falls during the Great Depression with two brothers and two sisters. His favorite expression was “We were so poor when the Depression came we thought it was an improvement”.
He told me the City or County came around in large open back flatbed trucks with railings to pick up the men with families on assistance (welfare) (fathers & husbands) plus the older boys to shovel out the railway crossing or wherever they were needed;continued assistant was contingent on helping out when needed.
I have no idea how many fire hydrants there are in the city. We have too many drug rehab houses and assorted halfway house in the city. These mentioned establishments may or may not be on the tax rolls.
If they are not on the tax rolls, they receive police and fire services for free. Service the rest of us pay for with our taxes.
Drive by them on East Main Street at any given time to see the residents of these mentioned establishments smoking as if smoking was their job.......just saying.