fire hoses
Blaze-dousing equipment
Fire hoses are large, flexible tubes designed to carry water at high pressure for firefighting.
They connect to hydrants or pumper trucks and can direct powerful streams of water onto burning structures.
The phrase also appears in contexts of crowd control, where fire hoses have historically been turned on protesters—most notoriously during the American civil rights movement.
Firefighters dragged the hoses toward the blaze.
- hook and ladderFire apparatus with extension
- hosepipeFlexible tube for water
- axesHeaded chopping tools
- laddersStructures for ascending
- nozzleFlow-directing pipe fitting
water · water pressure · high pressure · standpipes · drench · sprinkler systems · firefighters · hydrant · pumpers · jet · canvas · couplings · spray · pressure · flames · discharge · burst · streaming
- fire safetysmoke detectors, evacuation plan, smoke alarms, sprinklers, assembly point
- firefighting equipmentextinguishers, sprinklers, sprinkler systems, water cannons, standpipes
- firefightingfirefighter, firefighters, firehouse, flashing lights, emergency lights
- civil rightsequal protection, equal rights, Civil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act
- Alabama HistoryMontgomery, Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr.
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only
fire hosesgarden sprinklers
Devices dispersing water outdoors
drip irrigation · spray bottles · eyedroppers · atomizers · misters
fire hosesflamethrowers
Weapons emitting burning fuel
incendiary devices · accelerants · blowtorches · fire starters · Molotov cocktails
fire hoseseyedroppers
Tubes dispensing single drops
pipettes · syringes · atomizers · spray bottles · misters