Water at Vehicle Accidents

Myself and the cheif have been trying to find how much water does nfpa recommend to have on scene for a motor vehicle accident. If anyone could help me out with this information that would be great.. Thanks for the help.

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on May 23, 2010 at 3:48pm

The NFPA does not have a standard for water supply at a MVC.

NFPA Standard 1901 - Motorized Fire Apparatus requires a minimum of a 500-gallon tank on Class A pumpers.

If you send a Class A pumper to most MVC's you'll have plenty of water for a single car that may catch fire.

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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on May 23, 2010 at 5:48pm

See...and I was gonna' say: "enough for everyone to be able to have a drink."

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Permalink Reply by Vic Silverfish on May 23, 2010 at 9:06pm

Than I guess you'd use the beer to put out any fire?

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Reinemann on June 8, 2010 at 1:56pm

We roll an engine and a squad to all MVA's, first truck out is engine 18 and it has 300 gal of water and basic portable hurst tools, and basic rescue tools but 4man crew....second out is Squad 13, no water, but more heavy duty rescue/extrication tools....if needed further we will roll a regular engine, usually engine 17.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Brewer on June 10, 2010 at 8:05pm

I have looked into how much water. Most cominly from my experince I never really need more then 500 gallons of water. But I love all the water I can get. You just never know what might happen.

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Permalink Reply by Ron King (Fire Chief) on June 10, 2010 at 9:51pm

So true Joe. If the firefighter is good less water if not more water. It always feels good to know that lots of water is there.

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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on June 10, 2010 at 11:04pm

If you have the luxury of CAFS you can cut your water usage by up to 75% and reduce your knockdown time too.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Brewer on June 10, 2010 at 11:09pm

I remeber last month we had a wreck were the truck was down 75 feet down a hill at a steep 75 degree grade. I could not go down to get it out and had to send 2 younger guys down and all I had was 500 gallons. And could not get a tanker from anywere. Luckly they got it out but we came close to a big proplem.