Preplanning Your Preconnects

摘要

Next to emergency medical services equipment, precon-nected hoselines are probably the most used equipment on the engine. Yet, when designing and specifying new apparatus, we put preconnects and (especially) crosslays usually where they will fit or where we always put them-on top of the pump module. Unfortunately, because our engines have become larger, requiring more and more storage and featuring larger water tanks, the cross-lays and hosebeds are placed higher and higher in the engines, which presents concerns and safety issues for firefighters who must now reach higher or even step up onto the apparatus when deploying these lines.