As I was watching the events unfold a neighbor of mine pointed out a fire hydrant with the caps off and no water running out of it. I asked one of the firefighters if it was a dry plug and he stated “it’s a city hydrant, and they had it turned off but it’s coming on now”. That was an hour after I heard the first sirens. Why did it take so long?

As you can see by the pictures the city called on quite a few tankers to ferry water to a portable tank assembled in the middle of highway 14 (Illinois Road). Many of the trucks were from the Aboite Volunteer Fire Department. I took close to 100 meg of pictures, but I really need to RTFM on this camera. It was until close to an hour after I got there that I finally got the settings correct for night pics. Click on an image to view all of them at Flickr. 

The dry hydrant

Love this one..

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