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Modified FDNY High Rise Load

Over the past 2 years my department has re-evaluated our high-rise setups. In doing such we moved away from carrying 50’ of 2.5” hose, a gate-wye and 100’ of 1.75” hose to carrying 4 bundles of 2” hose. Because we changed the hose configuration we also re-evaluated how we bundled it.

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FDNY Load-Fit well in our compartments, deployed great, wanted a way to carry it over shoulder or bottle rather than on shoulder.

Denver Load-didn’t fit well in…

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Added by Grant Schwalbe on April 10, 2016 at 7:03am — No Comments

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