Chief Frank Slymock had one last fire hydrant to change before all the hydrants in town were upgraded.
Under a hot sun Monday afternoon, Slymock and another firefighter removed the old cap from the large nozzle on the side of the hydrant — known as a “steamer” — and installed a new 5-inch Storz connection. With that, the department had upgraded about 90 hydrants around town with the new connections, some of more than 1,000 that will be upgraded thanks to a $136,560 Local Share Account grant from the state Department of Community and Economic Development.
Pringle Borough applied for funding to install the 5-inch Storz connections on 1,060 hydrants in 12 municipalities: Courtdale, Edwardsville, Exeter, Forty Fort, Kingston, Larksville, Luzerne, Plymouth, Plymouth Twp., Pringle, West Wyoming and Wyoming, according to DCED.