The other tread on long drive ways got me curious about how other depts setup the 2nd engine if that engine forward lays from the hydrant to the scene.
We had a house fire about a month ago that was a mess. A little back ground on this dept, this is a part time gig where there is only 1 24 hr and 1 12 hr day person rest are volleys, the 12 guy is at another station. I was 1st in engine the chief got on scene, gave report, called for mutual aid and advised me to come up to the house and the 2nd in could lay the line. The driveway was long but not crazy 800' or so. So.... get up to the house which is a 2 story 2500 sq ft or so about 30% involved but had yet to breach the roof. Chief is dressed out so get him a line on the ground and get water w class A foam in it, pull another line to the rear and I start hitting it from there. So there was a brief span of time where we could have gotten on top of this until....
The 2nd in engine hooks to the hydrant and lays a single 3" up to the scene gets out and breaks the line, then he runs a 50ft section from his truck to mine?? So I'm guessing that his plan was to feed my truck from his which is fine I reckon. The problem arose when he got confused trying too be to fast and called for water too soon and charged the supply bed, shortly thereafter I ran out of water and we burnt the place to the ground.
In hind sight it would have been better for me to take the time to get out wrap the hydrant and lay 5 inch up to the fire and the 2nd in could have made the hook up and charged the line. Also double 3s should have been laid being 800 ft long and should have IMO hooked them directly to the engine that was already attacking the fire. We had supply issues with the single 3, we set up a blitz gun but didn't have enough volume to run that and 2 1.75 lines. "" Which that has been fixed, The truck that was 2nd in now has 1000 ft 5 inch.
So having rambled all that out, Do you hook to your engine and feed the attack pumper or break the line and hook it directly to the attack pumper
We had a house fire about a month ago that was a mess. A little back ground on this dept, this is a part time gig where there is only 1 24 hr and 1 12 hr day person rest are volleys, the 12 guy is at another station. I was 1st in engine the chief got on scene, gave report, called for mutual aid and advised me to come up to the house and the 2nd in could lay the line. The driveway was long but not crazy 800' or so. So.... get up to the house which is a 2 story 2500 sq ft or so about 30% involved but had yet to breach the roof. Chief is dressed out so get him a line on the ground and get water w class A foam in it, pull another line to the rear and I start hitting it from there. So there was a brief span of time where we could have gotten on top of this until....
The 2nd in engine hooks to the hydrant and lays a single 3" up to the scene gets out and breaks the line, then he runs a 50ft section from his truck to mine?? So I'm guessing that his plan was to feed my truck from his which is fine I reckon. The problem arose when he got confused trying too be to fast and called for water too soon and charged the supply bed, shortly thereafter I ran out of water and we burnt the place to the ground.
In hind sight it would have been better for me to take the time to get out wrap the hydrant and lay 5 inch up to the fire and the 2nd in could have made the hook up and charged the line. Also double 3s should have been laid being 800 ft long and should have IMO hooked them directly to the engine that was already attacking the fire. We had supply issues with the single 3, we set up a blitz gun but didn't have enough volume to run that and 2 1.75 lines. "" Which that has been fixed, The truck that was 2nd in now has 1000 ft 5 inch.
So having rambled all that out, Do you hook to your engine and feed the attack pumper or break the line and hook it directly to the attack pumper
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