Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Be Concerned. Be Very Concerned. No Matter Where You Live, But Particularly If You Live In Or Near The 200 Block Of State Street.

The lead picture looks frighteningly similar to one featured in a HUDseen article from last summer, doesn't it?  See and read about it (and also the same from a year previous) here: is that a fire hydrant in there?

There are three FIRE HYDRANTS in the 200 block of State Street.  Here's what they look like, from east to west:

A FIRE HYDRANT PRESUMABLY 
READY FOR A FIRE 

This FIRE HYDRANT has been
OUT OF SERVICE for years.

IN SERVICE OR NOT?  DOES ROB PERRY
OR ANYONE FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
CARE? When was it last checked?

The FIRE HYDRANT on 3rd Street at Long Alley that is very close to the rears of several houses in the 200 block of State has been tagged as OUT OF SERVICE for years. 

Here are the three FIRE HYDRANTS surrounding the east side of Bliss Towers -- one on Columbia, one on State and one on 2nd Street.  Two of them have had OUT OF SERVICE tags on them for years.

"OUT OF SERVICE"

"OUT OF SERVICE"

In service and ready to help extinguish a fire, presumably.
When was it last checked to be operational and when was it 
last painted?

Then there is the so-called FIRE HYDRANT on North 4th Street at Prison Alley, in front of popular establishment and across the street from Galvan's multi-million-dollar hotel project where lots of bare wood is visible and National Grid was a presence today:

 A few years ago, I was told by someone that this hydrant 
had been out service for at least 7 years.  When was it last 
touched by a DPW employee who wasn't replacing a 
plastic bag covering it?

A city that allows its hydrants to remain out of service and 
covered in torn plastic bags for years will have no problem with 
allowing a business to keep their cigarette butt bucket at the 
curb 24/7/365.  Garbage begets garbage.  Would this be
tolerated on Warren Street or near City Hall?

Unsurprisingly, this morning I noticed this:



When the battery in a smoke alarm in your house or apartment dies and the alarm tells you so, what do you do?  Nothing?  Of course you don't do nothing; only a fool would do no more than remove the battery to stop the beeping.  You replace the battery as soon as possible, even if you have other alarms in the house.  But I'd bet that Rob Perry does nothing about out of service smoke alarms in his house, possibly even for years or decades.  Because he knows all about the futility of being properly prepared for all types of fires, say, one that can easily consume a house or three in 15 minutes on a windy day or night and an apartment building in an hour or so!  Unless someone else in his household has the sense to make sure all the alarms are working at all times, Rob Perry probably doesn't have any working smoke alarms in his entire house.  

Of the 24 FIRE HYDRANTS on all of Warren Street, here are the ones which are tagged as OUT OF SERVICE or covered partially or completely in plastic bags (none of them were obscured by vegetation, by the way):




If you don't live on Warren Street and have an OUT OF SERVICE FIRE HYDRANT in your neighborhood OR DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF YOUR HOUSE OR APARTMENT and would like to ask your $123,000 DPW Superintendent when he thinks it will be fixed, if it will ever be in service again, what the problem with the hydrant is or what he has done recently to get the hydrant back in service, I suggest you call his unlisted work cellphone number and leave him a message (he won't answer; your call will go directly to his voicemail).  Here is that number:   518-965-5235.  

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