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.
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.
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.
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.