Today’s hydrants break, leak, and freeze, sometimes costing people their lives. The tamper-proof and incredibly durable Sigelock Spartan, designed by a former New York firefighter, is intended to work ...

Design features strong coating, robust interiors and tight security access. The Sigelock Spartan base model fire hydrant is seen in this undated photo. Sigelock System June 4, 2014— -- George ...

Fire hydrants are as necessary as they are historically significant. The first fire hydrant was proposed sometime during the early 19th century. No one knows the exact date as the records of its ...

Veolia’s 1000th Spartan fire hydrant was recently installed in Orangeburg. Bill Madden, the director of New York communications and government affairs for Veolia, says they began installing them ...

New York’s first state-of-the-art fire hydrant was installed Friday in Long Beach, commemorating Garret Rooney, a former fire chief and former assistant city manager, city officials said. Sigelock ...

Mississauga became the first Canadian city to install the Spartan, a newly designed water theft-resistant fire hydrant, this week. When compared to traditional fire hydrants, the Spartan uses a ...

Come along with The Verge for the second season of Detours. We’ve traveled across the country to find the people, groups, and companies that are solving America’s problems in new and unconventional ...

Don’t blame your dog if it doesn’t recognize them on a walk. These 50 new fire hydrants across the city look nothing like their predecessors. They have a smoother, sleeker design. Their shiny, ...

Boynton Beach’s employees are national television stars. Actually, TV stars might be taking it too far. But employees from the utilities and fire departments were on the Discovery Channel’s “Daily ...