Spring Issue 2 - Knox Box

Field Testing in Lake OswegoThe Knox Company has two new products that will beavailable this summer – SecureCap and StorzLok.These two new water-tight locking devices will joinour FDC Product Family. While these two products wereinitially designed for conventional FDC and standpipeconnections, they are also applicable to hydrants.Currently, these products are being field tested byseveral departments. The Lake Oswego (Oregon) FireDepartment is one such department. The fire departmentwas first approached by their local water department aboutlocking several hydrants that had repeatedly experiencedunauthorized use. The three hydrants in question arelocated near a horse arena. During certain times of theyear, individuals open the hydrants and steal water. Thewater department wanted to stop the theft of water butstill allow the fire department access to the hydrants.Gert Zoutendijk, Fire Prevention Officer for Lake Oswego,contacted Knox about the availability of locking devices forhydrants. “We wanted to make it simple,” Zoutendijk stated.The Lake Oswego Department is a FDC plug user and wanteda product that locked the hydrants to unauthorized usersbut that was easily accessible to the fire department. Mostimportantly, they didn’t want to have to carry any additionaltools. Both the SecureCap and StorzLok were designed touse the Knox Keywrench. Since Lake Oswego already carriesthe keywrench, they would not need any additional tools toaccess the hydrants.So far, SecureCap and StorzLok have worked as designedand water has not been stolen. These products have a projectedrelease date of June 1. As soon as the products are available,Knox will send out product announcements.SecureCap (left) andStorzLok (right) installedon a hydrant.Gert Zoutendijk removinga SecureCap.1601 W. Deer Valley RoadPhoenix, AZ 85027PRESORTSTANDARDU.S. POSTAGEPAIDPHOENIX, AZPERMIT NO. 1662MADE IN THE USA© Copyright The Knox Company 2007.