Water hydrant access points in the countryside

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Has anyone else noticed that these have been popping up close to your house on the edge of a village? There are quite a lot now which I imagine are to be used in the case of emergency and probably relating to potential wild fires. We are in Normandy which might not be a region associated with wild fires. But there was one closer to Paris recently. I imagine that it has been dealt with by now.

I wonder what the fire brigade used for accessing water when in the countryside before now? Other than what water was already stored on the fire engine to start with?

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Throwing a long suction line into the nearest stream, irrigation pond or swimming pool seems the done thing around here.

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Here - they take it straight out of the Garonne.

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Each commune should have a plan for “un réseau via des Points d’Eau Incendie (PEI)”. I think there may have been pressure to improve these in recent years as our old commune ended up spending a whole years’ budget on redoing the PEI.

But then there were two pompiers on the conseuill!

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Yes, in my part of Normandy, they’re actually very well maintained, a brilliant red and numbered – which is reassuring :smiley:

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we have been advised our pool water will be used for firefighting if neccessary

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Water stores which look like enormous cushions are how they do it in much of Vienne.

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Oh that’s what they are!

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Friends of ours who are not on mains water have one too. Enormous squishy trampoline.

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Is that your Teresa May-type confession?

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“Pillow bladders” is the technical term. US military uses them for water, fuel and lubricants.