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Hose Deployment

What hose stretch would you use?
Here is an example of store fronts that are off of the street. This is like an alley that runs perpendicular to the main streets.

In most cases, these have a tax payer on the main level and residential units on the upper floors.

You can see that hose deployment is a priority and should be picked carefully. The wrong choice could be very detrimental. This brings up a good question: what type of hose loads do you use and deploy for non-traditional lays?

How long are they and what other uses are they good for? What sizes and configurations do you use? Where do you keep these loads and how are they loaded?

We have to remember that the atypical fire requires atypical tactics in some cases and the norm of pulling a 1 3/4 inch cross lay or speed load just isn’t going to get it done.

Train hard and be careful.

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Permalink Reply by JOHNNY RAY CARPENTER on September 23, 2010 at 10:24am

2 1/2 TO 3 INCH SPLITE SUPPLY WITH GATED WYE WITH 1 3/4 ATTACK LINES ATTACHED BEING HAND JACK BY AS MANY ROOKIES AS I CAN GET..

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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on November 16, 2010 at 12:03pm

Our Engines carry, 600 ft of 2 1/2" dead load with a gated wye that gates down to 1 3/4" and we carry 150 ft of 1 3/4" in a high rise pack that the Eng Co would connect to the gated wye. I am striving to encourage the Eng Officers to preconnect the 1 3/4" line and then carry another high rise pack.

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