San Francisco water . The Chief is very cool at a fire, testifies Spring Valley Gateman Mike Griffin April, 1925 SAN FRANCISCO WATER. In this high-pressure test the streams were thrtimes as high as Lottas Fountain high-pressure water system for fire-protec-tion purposes. This system has now beensufficiently long in service for us to pro-nounce it a complete success in every the impression grew in variousquarters that this system does, or should,displace the Spring Valley Water system asa source of fire protection, but this is veryfar from the truth. This high-pressure sys-tem i
San Francisco water . The Chief is very cool at a fire, testifies Spring Valley Gateman Mike Griffin April, 1925 SAN FRANCISCO WATER. In this high-pressure test the streams were thrtimes as high as Lottas Fountain high-pressure water system for fire-protec-tion purposes. This system has now beensufficiently long in service for us to pro-nounce it a complete success in every the impression grew in variousquarters that this system does, or should,displace the Spring Valley Water system asa source of fire protection, but this is veryfar from the truth. This high-pressure sys-tem is just exactly what it was intended tobe—namely, an auxiliary fire-protection sys-tem, or a system that is meant to augmentand reinforce the old system, but by nomeans to displace it. The reasons for this are—first, this sys-tem covers a comparatively small area ofthe city; and second, even within this coveredarea, there are large gaps without high-pressure mains and hydrants. At no time didthe designers and proponents of this high-pressure system intend to displace the fire-hydrants of the Spring Valley system, noteven in
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