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Red fire hydrants
You hardly ever see a red fire hydrant anymore - now they're yellow, or construction orange, or blue, or two-tone... but not just plain old red.
Red fire hydrants

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Posted by GlenEllyn at 11:14 am (PST) on Mon January 28, 2013   
I suppose local custom dictates the color.  I live in the Upper Midwest and the hydrant in my yard is red.  If nothing else, it's more visible in the snow than other colors, such as the funky yellow color I've observed elsewhere. 
Posted by RonM at 7:50 am (PDT) on Thu April 11, 2013   
I seem to remember during the bicentennial year, 1976, towns were painting the hydrants to look like minute men.

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