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 parallel 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 EngineLadder on September 6, 2010 at 12:07pm

We have the 1st and 2nd take the front and the 4th and 5th take the rear 3rd is RIT. Most the engines have a 3 and a 5 side. My company due to the fact that we have lots of row homes and framers do a 4 side in the bumper and the the cross lays are 4 and 6. Usualy we lead off with 3 inch but some of the chiefs down town have been spending a little to much time at the National Fire Academy and they want us to drop 5inch now. I like what you guys do with the line of the rear CapCity thats got to be good for taking alleys. We do the same thing with out high rise packs too. Exept that ours are only two sections of 1 3/4.