Fire Hydrant Injuries

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In Reply.—

I was attracted to the fire hydrant article by Joffe, Torrey, and Baker¹ for several unrelated reasons. Aside from my interest in injury prevention, I spent 8 years in college and medical school in West Philadelphia and in Center City Philadelphia. I can appreciate the limited opportunities for Philadelphia's children to escape the Delaware Valley's heat and humidity. But it is in part because I now live and work 100 miles west of Philadelphia, in semirural Hershey, that the most striking thing about Joffe's article is that it is an example of examining a problem with a microscope when a wide-angle lens is called for.