That big 6+ inch line can not be bent, the car owner's lucky they didn't rip the doors off the hinges to get a straighter line.
Those guys don't fool around, I was in the city while there was a house fire on the street I happened to be driving down, the fire truck was parked by a hydrant on the left side of the road (I thought), while the burning house was across and down the road a ways, here comes johny tourist driving slowly down the road, rubber necking to see the burning house, when I proceeded to almost have my whole dumb self run over by the fire truck racing up to front of the house that was burning, appears the truck was not parked, but was just dropping the end of the hoses off at the hydrant. valuable lesson learned!