By Bill Adkins
When building a fire apparatus with front or rear intakes, most manufacturers don’t take into consideration whether the department using it may need to draft from those intakes. If you have ever tried pulling a draft from the front or rear intake with an empty water tank, then you know how difficult that may be. When using front or rear intakes, the primer at the pump housing must move tremendous amounts of air before reaching the water source. What can we request on our build sheet to accommodate such situations? One fix is adding a second primer to those long intakes.
Pumps are tested when built (and annually) to ensure all components are in working order and to verify the pump capabilities. During this test they are almost always tested using the side intakes. This has significantly less cubic feet of air than using the front or rear intakes. Because of this, additional primers are not installed unless requested from the buyer.
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Posted: Mar 22, 2022
Weis Fire—Hallam (NE) Fire and Rescue Quick Attack 300TM. Ford F-450 Super Cab and chassis; Power Stroke 6.7L Turbo Diesel 330-hp engine; Hale HPX200-KBD24 250-gpm @ 100-psi pump; UPF Poly 300-gallon water tank; rear in-cab conversion adding SCBA walkway brackets with retention strips; top-mount pump controls; TFT Tornado nozzle with joystick control. Dealer: Mike Weis, Weis Fire & Safety, Salina, KS.
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Posted: Mar 22, 2022
Most of the early day buildings around the Enid downtown square in 1901 were built of southern hard pine. A few painted walls and some brick walls were beginning to be used. Wooden sidewalks were the standard.
According to the Enid Fire Department history, the Enid City Council on Dec. 28, 1893, approved the appointment of a fire warden and assistant fire marshal, plus each business around the downtown square would be required to keep a barrel of water for protection against fire and six fire hand grenades (glass spheres containing carbon tetrachloride) to help put out any fires that occurred.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Enid News & Eagle
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Posted: Mar 22, 2022
The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department wants you to help it name some of its newest team members.
Fire Rescue crews just got their two new water rescue training dummies and they need to be named. One of the dummies is child-sized and the other is adult-sized. The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department posted pictures of the new dummies to its Facebook page and asked for help picking out names.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane
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VIDEO: Brownsburg firefighter Jason Stumm, in the industry for more than 20 years, says each day is unpredictable.
“There are days, weeks and months sometimes that you go on runs and it’s not really stressful. It’s a daily event, but then you have that one run in the middle of the month that you remember.
- PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis
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