Kids from Kenosha scouting troops spent hours over the weekend digging out fire hydrants buried in snow.
Members of 10 troops, including younger kids from Cub Scout troops, dug out more than 230 buried hydrants around the community. Three additional troops plan to continue the work this week, with organizers estimating they will have freed more than 300 hydrants from the snow when they are done.
“This is just a fantastic community service and I couldn’t be more happy,” said interim Kenosha Fire Chief Christopher Bigley.
This winter’s combination of snowstorms and weeks without a thaw has left many of the city’s more than 3,300 fire hydrants buried. The Fire Department put out a call last week asking for residents to help dig them out, worried the buried hydrants could cause delays in fighting fires.
Bigley said he remembered his Scouting troop digging out hydrants in the 1970s in Milwaukee so decided to call administration from the regional Three Harbors Council of the Boy Scouts of America to see if that was possible here.