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In May, a well on the Pecos County property of Laura Briggs started spraying saltwater like a fire hydrant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

The Newtown Dream Dog Park is one of the best in the country, outfitted with sprinklers, a spraying hydrant, hoops, tunnels and more.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025

Insecurity is not uncommon among artists—or the rest of us—but few stars broadcast their anxieties to the world like Eilish: She is wildly open, the emotional equivalent of a fire hydrant spraying a summer sidewalk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

A video of the early-morning, post-crash scene, obtained by TMZ, showed Arenas lying face down in the street in a few inches of water while the broken hydrant sprayed water into the air.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

No matter how hot it got, Mami wouldn’t allow us to cool off in the hydrant with the neighborhood kids, whom she considered a bad influence.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Fire hydrants in the nation’s capital were painted to resemble American patriots, as part of the “Paint-A-Plug for America” project.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Then move on over to the fire hydrants.

From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026

During last year’s L.A. firestorms, hydrants ran out of water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

Fire hydrants went dry or lost pressure during the Palisades fire, turning homes like hers into fuel for the inferno.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

But when a fire became too big, and the fire engines from the next neighborhood had to be called in, they were useless because they could not connect their hoses to your hydrants.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman