FDNY's social media has brought the subject up a few times recently. It appears they're serious about getting people to realize they're not fucking around.
NYC is not fu*cking around. At a double fatal in the Bronx, a car was parked on a hydrant. Owner got a $4000 fine.
“We’re not supposed to do it but where else am I going to park?” the vehicle owner told ABC 7 at the time. “You can’t double park in these streets, these streets are small.”
Exactly, what the regular people don’t understand about the protocol of a fire job, especially in NYC with the FDNY, is that the inconvenience of even just a few seconds of direct access to a hydrant for water supply can, and will, cause people to die. It is not an opinion, it is a fact.
There have to be consequences for the entitled who think they can park anywhere, anytime. Posting signs and, those very obvious hydrants, mean nothing to them. One of my favorite scenes in an early season of Chicago Fire was when one of the officers instructed his men to smash an illegally parked car’s windows. He did seem a bit too delighted to make that order!
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