Firehose
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A firehose is a thick, high-pressure hose used to carry water or other fire retardant (such as foam) to a fire to extinguish it. Outdoors, it is attached either to a fire engine or a fire hydrant. Indoors, it can be permanently attached to a building's standpipe or plumbing system.
As a figure of speech, education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the California Institute of Technology (otherwise known as Caltech) is often referred to by students and alumni as "drinking from a firehose" — a reference to the high pressure of both the hose and the education.
This high pressure also allows the fire hose to serve as an effective form of crowd control, including most notably by Bull Connor in the Deep South against civil rights protestors.
See also
- dry standpipe
- wet standpipe
- fIREHOSE (band)
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