There was a call in our county but the next town over that I was introduced to something new. I was wondering if other places have strange setups like this also.
The town takes there reclaimed sewage water and uses it for fire fighting, golf course, and for industrial plants, and the county park. I remember 10 years ago when they put in a water tower for the system and they replaced a lot of fire hydrants with lavender hydrants.
What I did not realize is the pumping system is under sized and is not able to keep up for larger fire fighting needs. I was told there pumping system can maintain a flow of 300gpm for fire fighting depending on the time of day. When the fire department needs a larger flow they are responsible to pump the needed flow.
The call was a 24 unit apartment fire with smoke showing at the roof and 2 windows. Dispatch called out there department and ours. They sent there engine, wagon, and support truck. There mini pumper went to the treatment plant (there pumper was out of service but would have gone also). We sent out engine and wagon. I think they called out 2 ALS and 4 BLS buses.
There was about 2 minutes of radio traffic between unites marking in rout and the other station telling us where they wanted us to park. Then the strange call asking for the shortest truck we have with a 1000gpm pump, 20' 6” draft, 5” outlet, and 50' 5” hose to come to there water treatment plant about 3 miles from the fire.
They had me draft from there recycled water holding tank and pump it into the distribution lines. During the 3 hours I was there I learned more on how the system worked and got a tour of the sewage plant before I left.
Dose anyone else run into a hydrant system where the fire department pumps water into the hydrant system?
Is there a name for this system or a way to look it up to learn more?
The town takes there reclaimed sewage water and uses it for fire fighting, golf course, and for industrial plants, and the county park. I remember 10 years ago when they put in a water tower for the system and they replaced a lot of fire hydrants with lavender hydrants.
What I did not realize is the pumping system is under sized and is not able to keep up for larger fire fighting needs. I was told there pumping system can maintain a flow of 300gpm for fire fighting depending on the time of day. When the fire department needs a larger flow they are responsible to pump the needed flow.
The call was a 24 unit apartment fire with smoke showing at the roof and 2 windows. Dispatch called out there department and ours. They sent there engine, wagon, and support truck. There mini pumper went to the treatment plant (there pumper was out of service but would have gone also). We sent out engine and wagon. I think they called out 2 ALS and 4 BLS buses.
There was about 2 minutes of radio traffic between unites marking in rout and the other station telling us where they wanted us to park. Then the strange call asking for the shortest truck we have with a 1000gpm pump, 20' 6” draft, 5” outlet, and 50' 5” hose to come to there water treatment plant about 3 miles from the fire.
They had me draft from there recycled water holding tank and pump it into the distribution lines. During the 3 hours I was there I learned more on how the system worked and got a tour of the sewage plant before I left.
Dose anyone else run into a hydrant system where the fire department pumps water into the hydrant system?
Is there a name for this system or a way to look it up to learn more?
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