{"id":286104,"date":"2026-07-03T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286104\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:55:12","slug":"nyc-heat-hack-free-fix-to-turn-fire-hydrants-into-sprinklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/286104\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC heat hack: free fix to turn fire hydrants into sprinklers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYC heat hack: free fix to turn fire hydrants into sprinklers<\/p>\n<p>ByTatum Fry\u20221 hour agoUpdated: July 3, 2026, 2:06 pm EDTPublished: July 3, 2026, 1:09 pm EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base leading-loose tracking-tight font-medium text-gray-900 flatplan_intro mb-4\" data-flatplan-id=\"flatplan_intro\" data-testid=\"video-description\">New York City is handing out free spray caps that turn fire hydrants into legal, water-saving sprinklers this Fourth of July. The dangerous holiday heat wave isn\u2019t the only reason the FDNY is offering this hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC heat hack: free fix to turn fire hydrants into sprinklers ByTatum Fry\u20221 hour agoUpdated: July 3, 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109587,109595,109582,109581,109586,109590,109580,109584,15842,9,109591,96269,56,63,109588,109579,65,109583,64,109585,109594,109593,109589,11304,109592,20808,60571,15844,46660],"class_list":["post-286104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-1000-gallons-per-minute-hydrant","tag-actionable","tag-beat-the-heat-nyc","tag-fire-hydrant-sprinkler","tag-fire-hydrant-water-waste","tag-firehouse-hydrant-schedule","tag-free-spray-caps-nyc","tag-how-to-open-fire-hydrant-legally","tag-live-wx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-heat-safety","tag-news-trending","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-cooling-tips","tag-nyc-fire-hydrant-spray-cap","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-heat-wave-fourth-of-july","tag-nyc-news","tag-opening-fire-hydrant-illegal","tag-seasonal","tag-spray-cap-giveaway","tag-stay-cool-summer-nyc","tag-summer","tag-summer-heat-wave-2026","tag-temperatures","tag-the-weather-channel","tag-voiceover","tag-weather-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}