[AT] Had to read this twice

[Steve W.]

I hate to say it but there is a bit of truth in that story....

Here is another item. City departments run with hydrants, as such they
depend on the volume from the water lines and spec trucks that are only
really used to boost the pressure and feed the hand lines very little on
board storage for water 400-500 gallons is typical.

 In my area and in most rural departments there is always a water supply
problem. We are used to dropping suction lines and running tanker
shuttles, as such we usually spec rigs with the biggest pump and tank
possible. We only have one rig with a 500 gallon tank, it is our BIG
(2200 GPM) portable pump, on a fire where we need lots of water this rig
gets stuck on the creek or pond and shoves the water to the rest. She
will really push water. The rest of our rigs all have pumps of at least
1000 GPM.

Steve Williams



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From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
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> There is the story about the big fire at an industrial plant.  The
paid FD
> had been fighting it for hours when the VFD appeared over the hill in
their
> old pumper.  They roared down the road, past the rest of the firemen
and
> straight into the middle of the burning building where they proceeded
to put
> out the fire in short order.  The plant owners were so happy they gave
the
> VFD a $10,000 donation.  The plant manager asked the Capt. of the VFD
what
> he was going to do with the money.  He replied "well the first thing
we're
> gonna do is fix the brakes on that danged pumper!"
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:30 AM
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>
>
> > No disrespect to the volunteers  - it's just that by the time they
could
> > possibly get here, even if they were located in the firehouse,
things
> > would be out of hand.  From that view alone I am always careful
about any
> > fire (I assume that if one breaks out and I can't handle it it's all
> > over).
> >
> > David
> > NW NC
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