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A firehose is a thick, high-pressure Hose used to carry Water or other Fire Retardant (such as foam) to a Fire to extinguish it. Outdoors, it is attached either to a Fire Engine or a Fire Hydrant . Indoors, it can be permanently attached to a building's Standpipe or Plumbing system. As a Figure Of Speech , education at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology and at the California Institute Of Technology (otherwise known as Caltech ) is often referred to by students and alumni as "drinking from a firehose" — a reference to the high pressure of both the hose and the education. This high pressure also allows the fire hose to serve as an effective form of Crowd Control , including most notably by Bull Connor in the Deep South against Civil Right s protestors. SEE ALSO
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