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The article views that a victory for former U.S. President Donald J. Trump in the November 2024 election and his ex-trade officials, including international trade lawyer Robert E. Lightthizer, could lead quest for tariffs on economic adversaries like China.

The article focuses on the challenges faced by residents, firefighters, and authorities during a devastating wildfire in Chile, highlighting issues with water supply, infrastructure, and government response. Topics include the inadequate water availability at fire hydrants, the impact of extreme climate conditions on firefighting efforts, and the ongoing debate about water rights and privatization in Chile.

The article reports on the discovery by firefighters who were trying to stop the spread of the wildfire in a residential neighborhood in Lahaina, Hawaii on August 8, 2023 that the town's hydrants were starting to run dry. Topics include the role played by the drought in the collapse of the town's water system, the call by county officials for people to conserve water, and the start of a review of how previous decision-making and policies might have affected the fire and the ability to stop it.

The article focuses on Dianne Feinstein's influence on shaping San Francisco through her attention to detail, leadership, and involvement in both its triumphs and tragedies, including her role as mayor in revitalizing the city's iconic cable car system.

The article offers information on a street cleaner had in advertently left a wrench beside a fire hydrant; and mentions that the fire commissioner feared that a fire would break out and that water pressure would be insufficient to combat.

It felt like Death Valley as stifling heat reached down on Friday and took the city in its clammy grip, transforming the streets and sidewalks into hot griddles and creating instant dripping wretchedness. Thermometers reached triple digits, but that was not all -- untreated sewage cascading into the rivers denied water activities to many New Yorkers at the moment they most craved them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A plume of water sprayed high into the air near the intersection of West Augusta Boulevard and North Mozart Street on Wednesday afternoon after adults illegally opened a fire hydrant so children could play in the water as the heat index climbed to 108 degrees. Antonio Gonzalez, 46, stood outside a nearby store watching a summertime ritual that he said would continue long after he was gone. ''That kid right there,'' Mr. Gonzalez said, pointing to a boy. ''He'll open them when he grows up.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

TECHNICAL standards may seem arcane, but they are often powerful tools of economic development and social welfare. They can be essential building blocks for innovation and new industries. The basic software standards for the Web are striking proof. Safety is also a potent argument for standards. History abounds with telling examples, like the Baltimore fire of 1904. That inferno blazed for 30 hours, destroying more than 1,500 buildings across 70 city blocks. Fire engines from other cities came to help, but could not. Their hose couplings -- each a different size -- did not fit the Baltimore fire hydrants. Until then, cities saw little reason to adopt a standard size coupling, and local equipment manufacturers did not want competition. So competing interests undermined the usefulness of, and investment in, the technology of the day. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As temperatures hovered in the 80s on Wednesday, a group of children frolicked in the spray of an open fire hydrant in the Bronx. Then someone among them hurled a cup of water or a water-filled balloon at a passing car, the authorities said, setting off a chain of events that left a New York City police officer in critical condition two days later. The officer, Ernest M. Rodrigz, 43, who was off-duty and riding with his 7-year-old son, stopped his Honda sedan at Tiebout Avenue and East 181st Street about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday after the water hit his car and splashed in through an open passenger-side window, Deputy Inspector Kim Y. Royster said. As Officer Rodrigz got out to reprimand the group -- which included some supervisory adults -- Keith McNeill, who was a passenger in the back of a car behind Officer Rodrigz's, got out and walked up to the officer, the police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Q.Why are some city fire hydrants yellow? The only places I recall seeing them are in parts of Queens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ROASTING in the July heat, a teenager entered a dry cleaner near the northern tip of Manhattan carrying an electric drill and an extension cord. He told the owner he needed to plug the cord in for one minute. The young man was not in construction. His car was not in need of repair. He was trying to open the fire hydrant outside the dry cleaner, at the corner of Thayer Street and Sherman Avenue in Inwood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MY father, Richard B. Snow, was happily running his own Manhattan architecture practice when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and he was quickly taken into a service that needed people who knew about structures. The Navy gave him a good job: he put on a nice, new uniform and every couple of days went to Brooklyn or Staten Island to inspect new shipyards and barracks and all the other buildings being conjured up by the war, making sure that the support beams were in the right places, that there were enough fire hydrants. On the way home to sleep in his own bed, he'd be saluted by sailors back from fighting the German U-boats in the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For more than half a century, Mr. Softee has been as synonymous with New York summers as open fire hydrants, its blue and white trucks and instantly recognizable jingle enticing children in Washington Heights, Coney Island and neighborhoods in between. New York being a tough town, Mr. Softee has also endured its share of bumps and bruises. It has fought about noise with the city, which no longer allows the company's trucks to play its jingle while parked. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Introduced on Thursday: Dog Friendly Honda Element Concept, featuring a package of canine travel enhancements. Is it real? Is Ruffy a good boy? Is he a good boy? Yes, Ruffy is a good boy. Yes he is. Yes he is. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents questions and answers related to miscellaneous issues. One reader wants to know about the subway art for which the U.S. Works Progress Administration is responsible. Another reader inquires about the placement of fire hydrants in a city. Another question is related to the location of Hotel Underwood.

The article presents questions and answers related to social issues. One person asks to get the details about the sex scandal in which revolutionary writer Maxim Gorky was involved. Another wants to know about the leather straps found in subways. A reader wants to know at what distance he can park his vehicle nearby a fire hydrant or if he can rely on the painted curb aside the hydrant.

The article presents information on the problem of gushing hydrants being faced by the workers of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection.

Reports on efforts of city officials to address serious misdeeds of some urbanites who illegally opens fire hydrants in Bronx, New York City.

Discusses how New York City residents rely on water hydrants for relief from the summer heat.

Reports on the problem encountered by New York City's Department of Environmental Protection from hydrants opened by people in neighborhoods across the city.

Focuses on the Japanese point guard of the New York Knicks and the unused fire hydrants that were extracted from the sidewalks of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Purpose of the fire hydrants' extraction.

Informs of obsolete fire hydrants in New York City. Disconnecting of many fire hydrants due to changes in infrastructure; Efforts of Kenneth K. Fisher, a City Councilman, to have them removed to create more parking spaces.

Presents a periodic look at rites of summer in the New York area. The role of the fire hydrants for children who can't get to the beach. The legal and the illegal way to use the hydrants for play. Water Day; `Play streets.'

Reports about the campaign launched by the Department of Environmental Protection against hydrant tappers in New York City.

Reports on the locking device designed by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), to curb the illegal opening of fire hydrants in New York City. Details of the same; Comments by the DEP and the Fire Department officials.

Presents information on fire hydrants in Coney Island in New York City. Closure of pumping station which powered the hydrants by the city; Reference to the hydrant located on Mermaid Avenue; Comments from Cathy DelliCarpini, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Environmental Protection.

Presents a photograph of a child playing with water in a broken fire hydrant in New York, New York.

Reports on the opposition by New York City officials over the efforts by real estate magnate Jerry I. Speyer to move a fire hydrant 50 foot to rest before the town house he has been building in the city. Features of the compromise between the officials and Speyer to settle the dispute; Features of Speyer's house; Background to the dispute.