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Fire hydrant snow removal bill heads to Christie
February 23, 2015
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Reader ” I pay tax’s for a paid fire dept and the should remove the snow around the hydrants, and in the spring and summer you all can repaint them too.”
Ridgewood NJ, So you think someone else is responsible for clearing the snow from your fire hydrant , guess again. The New Jersey Assembly has just passed a bill pushing for better snow removal around fire hydrants.
The measure would allow cities and towns to enforce stricter rules for people who have fire hydrants on their property calls for locator poles to be placed on every hydrant and requires the hydrants to be cleared of snow within 24 hours.
Reader , “The best way to stir up debate on this blog is to ask people to do something. It is guaranteed to get the “I pay taxes” crowd riled up. Community spirit? Nope! Entitlement? Yup! These people are how Ridgewood is viewed by others. Lazy, entitled snobs. Is that how you want Ridgewood to be seen? Clear the fire hydrants. Clear your sidewalks.”
Reader, “People are you kidding? i will bet you will be the first to bitch when your house burns down because the fd couldnt get to the fire hydrant because of your lazzy ass will not uncover a hydrant ”
Yes, but most municipalities have volunteer FDs, and it’s unrealistic to suggest volunteers do work like this. This is the new world, and we will see a lot more of these once-free services disappear. There will be more merging of services that are currently overlapped in the local/county/state levels.
If you can clean your walk why not clean around the fire hydrant after all it just may be your home on fire.
If i can make a modest proposal to the Village personnel and the contractors it uses plow the streets: stop mounding up the snow at every corner (including those with hydrants) It seems as if every cross walk beomes of wall of packed snow and ice whenever the streets get plowed. This includes the hydrants. Nothing is more frustrating than clearing sidewalks, cross walks and hydrants only to have the village plow them under again.
Leave the invoice in the homeowner’s mailbox.
https://www.northjersey.com/news/fire-department-asks-local-residents-to-adopt-a-hydrant-1.1269387
Take a cue from glen rock. If you don’t shovel out a hydrant on your property its up to a $500 fine.
Time to learn from a leader
Ha Ha…
The rough and tumble garbage men can’t get their feet wet when it snows to pick up the garbage in the back yard.
You can’t expect any town employee to pick up a snow shovel and clear a fire hydrant, now do you?
the fire dept should do that they make a lot of money. and they are not fighting a fire all the time, they do have the time. and in the spring time they can paint them to. come on you guys are paid fire dept, this is not the 1950,s.
the fire hydrants, huh. what about the parking meeter’s in the c b d, they stop’ed cleaning and removing the snow. it,s a mess.
the paid fire dep;t crew should be doing this, end of the story.
thanks dr, ben . @ 201-9341234
yeah