Firefighters battling a blaze in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley were in for quite a surprise this past month when they found dozens of fish clogging one of their hydrants.According to a report by CBC News, when fire crews tried to fill a pumper truck near the grass fire, nothing came through the dry hydrant.“We had a hard time getting any suction from the dry hydrant,” says Fire Chief Shawn Carey, of the Aylesford and District Volunteer Fire Department. “We took it apart because we thought we might have had a gasket gone in one of our lines.“When we took it
Fish Clog Dry Hydrant
Firefighters in Nova Scotia investigate how dozens of fish got through a hydrant’s strainers.
May 03, 2016 | by Luke LeNoble |















