HOSE LOADS FOR INCREASED OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

摘要

In the world of quint concepts and three-fire-fighter engine companies, many suburban departments are getting away from or reducing static loaded hosebeds off the rear of the engine. (I mention quints because of the amount of hosebed and booster tank capacity you lose.) Even more perplexing is the engine company that has all of its hose preconnected or has three or four preconnected lines of all the same diameter (usually 1% inch) and keeps the only spare hose on the engine bedded underneath the preconnects so members have to stretch the preconnect and then bring up the spare hose that's stored underneath it. Having all your attack lines fixed to a certain length makes it much harder to get a line in service when the 300-foot-deep commercial occupancy has a fire (unknown location because of heavy smoke throughout) and the only thing you're staring at is 200-foot preconnects.