Taking A Walk

by Dwayne Phillips

I have seen fire hydrants on several stretches of road. I am all for fire hydrants, fire safety, lower home owners insurance rates, and so on. I am also puzzled by a fire hydrant every quarter mile for miles on end out in the country. Sometimes there are eight hydrants per mile. Often there are no homes or other structures in sight, but here are the fire hydrants.

Most of them are red, like this one.

Some of them are other colors like this one. Note that the perspective of the photo makes the hydrant look larger than the silo. It isn’t.

One thing they all have in common is that the grass is cut around them. Someone comes out weekly and maintains the ground about them.

This all seems expensive. I am guessing that this is funded by the Federal government.

I don’t get it.