Editor: Numerous hydrants were red tagged by fire crews during the fire. One red tag on Saunders Meadow was even labeled “Broken stem puts out 5gpm.” Red tags are bad regardless of the reasons tagged. These are old Mueller hydrants. Most every hydrant found on these service lines are painted orange. By definition, that means…

Editor:  If this happens, people will die, property will be lost and a city already struggling will crumble. An act of this proportion takes months and years, not days, to finalize. Where will our paramedics or firefighters come from? The bottom of the barrel. The ones who couldn’t hack it. Where is the next available…