Arkansas Online
ROGERS, Ark. — Employees of a rural water district confiscated equipment from the Beaver Lake Fire Department after discovering some of its firefighters tapping into a fire hydrant to fill swimming pools, an official with the water district said.
The department hadn’t notified the Benton County Water District it planned to tap the hydrant or arranged to pay for the water, said Eddie Cooper, water district manager.
“We confiscated the equipment they had on our hydrant,” Cooper said. Fire Department officials confirmed firefighters tapped fire hydrants to fill three private pools without first notifying water districts this summer.
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