How Municipal Water Actually Works
Most residential neighborhoods, including the Palisades, are served by gravity-fed water systems. Water travels from large reservoirs through trunk lines down to local tanks, and from those tanks into the streets. Hydrants are connected to the same trunk lines that serve homes.
Tanks refill from the reservoirs at a steady rate. On a normal day, a neighborhood draws less water than the tanks can refill. The system is balanced.
What Happened in the Palisades
When a home burns down, every pipe inside it melts open. Faucets, supply lines, showers, all of it. The water meter still feeds the line, but the line just bleeds out into the ground. Each destroyed home keeps draining water at up to 50 gallons per minute, for hours, long after the home itself is gone.
More than 6,800 structures burned in the Palisades. That comes out to over 20 million gallons per hour pouring out of melted pipes, doing nothing to fight the fire. The equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two minutes, lost straight into the ground.
A home saved is water saved. Using a Hainy Hydrant takes about 25 minutes of active spraying, roughly 600 gallons. A burned home wastes 3,000 gallons every hour, going into the ground. Every home that stands keeps water in the system for the next one.
The Shared Network
Here's the part most homeowners don't realize: the water that comes out of your kitchen tap and the water that comes out of a public hydrant are the same water. Same trunk lines, same pressure, same supply.
When the public side runs dry, it's because the line supplying it (and your home) has been drained. When residential pressure drops during a fire, it's because the same network has been overdrawn upstream.
Where Hainy Hydrant Fits
Every home in a fire-prone area needs a private fire hydrant. We've installed Hainy Hydrants since 2007 and saved over 100 houses during recent fires. It's effective, affordable compared to what's at stake, and simple enough that anyone on scene, you, a neighbor, or a first responder, can pick it up and act.
To be fully self-sufficient and not reliant on the municipal water supply, our electric fire pool pump taps directly into your pool network, turns on with a switch, and requires minimal maintenance with incredible performance and ease of use. A modern, clean alternative to the heavy gas pumps of the past, and we're really excited about it.
Single-outlet protection for smaller properties. Everything you need to respond quickly and protect your home from initial fire starts.
- ✓ Private Hainy Hydrant
- ✓ Single outlet
- ✓ 100ft Type-II Fire Hose
- ✓ Dual Range Nozzle (10–30 GPM)
- ✓ Hydrant Tool
- ✓ Respirator Mask & Safety Goggles Kit
Dual-outlet coverage for larger properties. Professional-grade protection on multiple sides of your home. The same equipment used by fire departments.
- ✓ Private Hainy Hydrant
- ✓ Dual Outlets, Gated Wye
- ✓ 100ft + 50ft Type-II Fire Hoses
- ✓ 2x Dual Range Nozzles (10–30 GPM)
- ✓ Respirator Mask & Safety Goggles Kit
- ✓ Hydrant Tool
Electric Pool Pump System
Compact electric pump. Plugs into your pool system. Thousands of gallons, ready to fight fire.
The Lesson
A burned home drains the water supply. Every melted pipe bleeds gallons into the ground for hours, water that should have been protecting the next house, the next street, the next neighborhood.
A private fire hydrant helps save your home. And by saving your home, it keeps water in the network for everyone else, instead of draining it.
Learn more during our free property walk-through.
Free property assessment. We'll test your water main, walk your property, and show you what your residential line can already deliver.
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