Drafting was a normal procedure when I was on the local Dept. 25 yrs ago. Our original 1963 Chev with a King pumper required you to draft when ever the main (a screaming 500 gal) tank was empty and you began pulling water from the porta tank that would be set up alongside the pumper at any structure fire. We rarely "pushed" water to the pumper from tanker trucks. The pump equipment on the truck (to my memory) incorporated a vacuum pump run by a 12V motor that pulled any trapped air out of the inlet lines. Yes, you still needed to ensure leak proof connections on the lines to the porta tank. We had "hose wrenches" mounted on brackets on 3 sides of all trucks. I can still hear that motor howl. When you were working a fire you could hear that sound above a lot of other things. When you heard it you knew that there was another load in the porta tank and our pump operator "Billy P" would be sending it our way.
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