what is the distance between fire hydrant line and petroleum product tank?
Fire hydrants are designed so that if they are run over by a car they will not rupture. the actual valve (which is closed until a firefighter opens it after connecting hoses to it) is underground. Hitting a hydrant with a car or otherwise destroying the above ground portion will break the connection to the valve, thus preventing it from opening. On top of that, considering I was at a machine gun shoot the other day and people with some handguns were shooting at empty propane tanks (thinner than a hydrant) and could barely move them or do much more than dent them. so my verdict: IMPOSSIBLE
In today's America, you can probably find a sale on smoke detectors for about $5 or $6 each. They are easy to install yourself and are quite effective. You will have to replace the batteries once a year. You will probably need only one detector per floor in most homes. Instructions and recommendations are included in the package when you buy them. They work and no home or apartment should be without them.
Micheal is right. I saw a garbage truck plow over a hydrant and no water! the nut on top goes to a valve below. i saw a man fly around the world backwards and it turned back time so he could rescue his woman from an earthquake.
Short answer: NO Long answer: Still NO. Fire hydrants are by nature very sturdy with thick well put together metal as they are holding back alot of pressure from the water they dispense when needed. If shot 28 times from a high powered rifle I would still venture that 28 shots wouldn't do it.
Hydrants are cast steel, not cast iron. Steel is much less brittle that iron. The backstop in many indoor ranges is a one inch steel plate angled at 45 degrees to direct the bullets down into a sand pit. They last practically forever. Critical parts of a hydrant are well over an inch thick. Do the math. Now a .50 BMG with armor piercing rounds, that would be a different story. That round was first designed by John M. Browning specifically to penetrate the inch thick armor of World War One vehicles.
