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Steigleitung trocken für Feuerwehr

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What does this mean? Automatic translation was useless here. Steigleitung für Feuerwehr would make sense, but the trocken in the middle? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.252.180.233 (talk) 15:46, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fire suppression standpipe is dry? (Trocken means dry) Tamanoeconomico (talk) 23:21, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
See Dry riser. Someone had answered this earlier, but the answer was reverted as being by a banned user. Deor (talk) 23:30, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
When put through Google Translate, it says "Riser dry for firefighters". Danleugers (talk) 13:13, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]