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Don Catenacci's Blog – January 2014 Archive (1)

The Real 2 Inch Hose.

I have read the many articles in various periodicals and online blogs about the new, super, almost 2 inch, 1 3/4 inch hose and wondered why not just use 2 inch hose? The Wyocena Bureau of Fire, a small rural paid on call fire department has been doing that for over a decade now. We don't use 1 3/4 inch hose or 2 1/2 inch hose at all. We are a 1, 2, 3, 5 inch fire department. The 1 inch is forestry hose, 2 inch is our handline, 3 inch is used for our apartment line, feeding FDCs,…

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Added by Don Catenacci on January 11, 2014 at 12:38am — No Comments

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