There is a fire hydrant disparity in Sun City, but it does not impair firefighters from doing their job.
There is more space between hydrants in phase one than in phase three. The disparity came up during the Dec. 13 Sun City Fire District board meeting when Tim Wilmes, board president, talked about a fire where hydrants were quite a distance from the incident location. Rob Schmitz, Sun City acting fire chief, acknowledged that on that fire crews had to use nearly all the hoses available on the trucks to reach the fire scene.
“The fire was about halfway between two hydrants,” he said.
