In northeastern mass different towns have different hydrants. During a house fire a few yrs back a town supplying mutual aid had a firefighter break a hydrant , by the time the got set up to the next hydrant the home was 75% gone.
How did he break it you ask. Well it appears that this hydrant gets shut of by turning left, the town he works in gets shut off by turning right.
For fuck sakes out of all the shit that needs to follow industry standards one would think this would be kinds towards the top of the list.