Shoveling your sidewalk just ain’t good enough anymore. Now, the city — or at least the St. Paul fire department, anyhow — wants you to shovel around any nearby fire hydrants too. Oh, my.
Shouldn’t the city be doing this?
Come to think of it, it’s probably in your best interest. “During a house fire, easy access to hydrants and even a clear path to a door can be a critical time-saver.”
5 Reader Comments
8:07 am
We get reminders of this every year. Residents sometimes forget what their responsibilities are.
8:11 am
I would rather watch my home burn to the ground than turn to the Nanny State Big Government Fire Department for help. Get out of my life, you Socialists!
9:59 am
I do a pretty decent job shoveling both sidewalks on my corner lot. I usually try to keep up with the fire hydrant situation because, it isn’t a mystery to me that they need access to it in order to use it. However, towards this point in winter, after the city plows have come by several times and pretty much buried the damn thing under hard pack snow and ice, it’s about impossible to get to with consumer grade snow weaponry. Plus, at least in NE I saw a fire truck pull up, firement jumped out and cleared the thing in a few minutes. Thanks firemen, I appreciated that.
10:00 am
Anyone see the spot about plowing differences between minneapolis and Edina on the news last night? http://wcco.com/local/minneapolis.edina.roads.2.1466083.html
10:09 am
I did. I also don’t buy Minneapolis excuse about street parking. Many of the suburbs that do a great jon of plowing have high density populations and miles and miles of streets to clear. And yet they can, while St. Paul and Minneapolis (which often charges more taxes) FAIL.Hah! Who’s the smug suburbanite now? I