TKC TIPSTER TESTIMONY!!! KANSAS CITY WATER PROBLEMS PERSIST!!! A SIGN THAT OLD & BUSTED FIRE HYDRANTS ABOUND!!!
While there have been a couple of high-profile pressers to show the political class working on improving this town's infrastructure, readers of this blog know better. To wit . . . This KICK-ASS TKC TIPSTER offers a bit of INSIDE INFO that clues readers in to a rather dangerous public safety question.
And so . . .
MORE THAN A FEW KANSAS CITY RESIDENTS ARE STARTING TO REALIZE THE SCREWED UP PRIORITIES OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL AND HAVE STARTED ASKING ABOUT SIGNS OF INFRASTRUCTURE FAIL!!!
Check it:
Kansas City Broken Fire Hydrants
Walking around my neighborhood (Crossroads) I noticed many fire hydrants with a white shield on them. Curiosity getting the best of me I asked a water department employee who was repairing a water main break (one of many in the Crossroads) what they were. He said they were markers to tell fireman they were an inoperable hydrant. I asked why they were not fixed and he laughed and said they were too busy repairing water main breaks to repair them.
I have now noticed many hydrants all over town with the ominous white shields on them. Apparently City Hall seems to think we need an operable trolley more than operable fire hydrants.
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Tony Botello Action Reporter! LOL
ReplyDeleteHere's a fact for you Tony. Almost half of the hydrants in KC don't work.
ReplyDeleteWe're lucky nobody says anything about it.
Wrong! Less than 300 are inoperable citywide out of 33,000. Less than 1%. Try screaming about something that really is an issue.
DeleteThe improvements would cost millions.
ReplyDeleteThey should train KCFD fire fighters to do plumbing (many have side jobs and claim to know how to do it)and they could fix the hydrants.
ReplyDeleteThey could save the city the money they claimed they were going to save the taxpayers when they took over the ambulance. FAIL
Its a great idea, it would get them off their asses and they could actually earn their money. and for once be a beneficial asset to the city and the tax payers who pay their wages.
A fire hydrant that doesn't work isn't an issue unless it's the one next to your house and you have a fire.
ReplyDeleteKCMO has the crime, violence, and homicides, broken water pipes, crappy streets, and broken fire hydrants of a Third World country. It's no wonder that when the out-of-town swells visit, their itineraries are carefully selected to be sure they don't get the wrong (accurate) impression.
If inoperable fire hydrants aren't an issue, what exactly is?
Oh that's right. The streetcar, downtown hotel, and Sly's photo ops tearing down houses.
The carnival continues!
6:20 if its ONLY 1% maybe the fire dept could put its 1% of the workforce on it, ya know those stations that only run 1% of any calls...that would still leave most of the other FF to their xboxes and such with out being disturbed... The city has a great track record of fuckin with shit that isnt broke and never fixing the shit that IS!
ReplyDeleteThe fire department has nothing to do with fixing hydrants. Quit always hating on firefighters
ReplyDeleteThe improvements would cost zillions. Can't disagree with that.
ReplyDeleteSure, improvements would cost millions. A couple million for road, a couple million for sidewalks.... think of all the things that could and SHOULD be fixed insead of spend $100 Milion on a streetcar.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Tony should start an occupy Main street movement. Mobilize preachers to tell their parishioners that Sly is doing them no favors spending all those millions on things that will never benefit their neighborhood.
7:11 thats funny shit, and yes we all know fire fighters dont fix hydrants...one reason is because they dont know how too!!! hhmm one would think if that is a source of the juice to their heroism they would know something about hydrants...lets suppose in the next 2o years all the fires they fought were in those areas of the hydrants they already admit dont work....The KCFD purges fire hydrants all the time, they should be trained to fix them when they are broke....bone is too dog as hydrant is to arrogant FF's.
ReplyDeleteThe firefighters test hyrants, and are more then willing to fix them if they had the proper tools. But it is the water departments responsiblity to fix hyrdants and water mains. Its like saying cops should fix the sidewalks just because they walk on them. Folks on here are just so angry at firefighters for no reason
DeleteHey..I love the fire department! I love the fact they are lazy as fuck, if crack would have given me the idea to make a living doing nothing with a pension...hell I would have done that...ya so what i may have had to show up to a fire in the middle of the night, but hey my union brothers set those fires, so i just set my alarm, really folks it no big deal...thats been going on for years...I only care about me and my family fuck yours...I work for the Kansas City Fire Department and support the corruption, after all its my job, cuz I am a hero
ReplyDeleteYou work for the fire department on an ambulance...big difference. And none of those things you mentioned are true.
DeleteMaybe Sly "feel good" James intends to turn the trolleys into pumper trucks? Might be a chance to give his son a job! Perfect :)
ReplyDelete6:20 is wrong....there's not 33,000 hydrants in the system., and I'm sure there's more than 300 hydrants out of service (Does WSD really know how many are not functional??) The Department used to outsource hydrant repairs because the number that were out of service was unacceptable. There's no reason they can't do that again. Someone is asleep at the switch at WSD. Starts at the top....
ReplyDeleteI got this figured out. Since the City has twice as many fireman as they need and soon will have streetcars that nobody will ride, let's turn the streetcars into "street fire engines." The extra fireman can ride up & down Main Street all day.
ReplyDeleteBuilding a toy train while we have these issues is like putting granite countertops in a dump on Tracy. Oh, wait. Been there, done that.
ReplyDeleteLol are the firefighters going to use shovels to dig up the hydrants? Or are they going to use halligans?
ReplyDeleteJealousy is a bad thing. Alot of negative people out there. Must be a shitty way to live bitching & complaining all the time.
ReplyDeleteThere's STILL no permanent director professional director at the water department, even with the $2.5 billion sewer upgrade staring the city in the face. And the $250/hour former KCPL executive who's "advising" the city as to how to run a water department probably doesn't know a whole lot about a fire hydrant maintenance program.
ReplyDeleteTypical priorities for KCMO.
And now on to the streetcar and downtown hotel.
Just hope neither catches on fire!
It is amazing that the consultant makes more than the director and the city manager combined, yet the water department is still a joke. $100 million of street car money coould surely fix the hydrants, maybe water line, or the millions spent on the consultant to tell them they need to fix them too.
ReplyDeletePermanent Director in place since January. 800 inoperable hydrants in May, now less than 300. All will be repaired by next April by private contractor.
DeleteFirst off the firefighters don't have a damn thing to do with the broken fire hydrants. Isn't there job to fix them. They just need to report as they find and I am sure they do.
ReplyDeleteYou people giving the firefighters crap about the hydrants are as brain dead as one can be and are proof as to why KC is in the shitter.
When you have no clue how something operates get off your fat potato chip eating ass and go find out how something works before you open your pie hole and say stupid crap.
4:09 - A hit nerve I presume?
ReplyDeleteNo just tired of seeing people jabber about shit like they fucking know something.
ReplyDeleteTo those that complain, could you at least fix the Slurpee machine first? Pissy little children. You should be pissed with the Mayor and the City Hall Kids who are raping you, but then maybe you like it.
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