MAKING A MORE COMPACT HOTEL PACK

摘要

Providing for adequate storage space is a great challenge when designing and purchasing fire apparatus. The amount of equipment carried on apparatus has increased significantly in recent years. Unfortunately, the size of the apparatus is not growing as fast as the volume of equipment. Hence, better use of apparatus storage space is extremely important. The Ashtabula (OH) Fire Department, for example, needed additional storage space for our lightweight fire hose. Our hotel packs retained a large amount of trapped air no matter how hard we tried to minimize the trapped air during packing. We tried numerous methods to eliminate the air; none were fully effective.