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ATLANTA, Ga. — If you live in an apartment or condo in metro Atlanta and a fire breaks out there is a chance firefighters might not have water to put it out.
A Channel 2 Action News investigation found some fire hydrants are dry and buildings are burning to the ground. We also learned Georgia does not have a standard dictating how often public fire hydrants should be checked. “Barely a trickle came out,” said Dorothy Daren.
Daren lives at an East Point apartment complex and still remembers a massive fire from two years ago where a hydrant did not work. Daren said the water from the hydrant looked, “Like a water fountain.” We went back through Channel Two Action News records and found 19 destructive apartment fires with hydrant malfunctions in the last five years; several involved dry hydrants.
Full story: Broken hydrants leave firefighters high and dry