(Lafayette, Louisiana) – If you drive through Lafayette, you may have noticed that some of the fire hydrants in the city are now white.
Having noticed several white hydrants near the Saint Streets and near the Downtown Lafayette area, I called Alton Trahan with the Lafayette Fire Department to ask why they were painting the hydrants white.
Traditionally, fire hydrants are painted yellow or red so that they can easily be located in the event of a major fire, but why white? It turns out the city of Lafayette is repainting nearly 1400 hydrants now, and the white coating over the hydrants is the primer…