I'm the chief of a local vol fire dept, the nearest hydrant to our fire house is 3 miles, We us our tanker and call other departments for tanker support. Drop tanks are set up for the tankers to offload in while one pumper drafts from the tanks and relays water to engines on the scene.
All fire fighters in my dept are trained to draft water from a drop tank, the pumpers are set up with external gate valves to allow drafting from a drop tank or pulling water from the onboard tank without loosing draft.
When drafting from the pond or stream we'll set a pumper up there to draft water and fill the tankers, when there's no tankers on site to fill we'll spray water back into the pond or stream through the deck gun until another tanker arrive to fill, that way we never loose the draft and can fill the tankers much faster.
There's a company now that makes a vacuum pump that works off of the trucks air brake system using a venturi valve to create a vacuum to draft water to the pump.
No electric motors or vane pumps to wear out and can be set up to automatically start pulling vacuum when you begin drafting or anytime pump pressure drops from loosing draft.
Been thinking about converting one pumper over to this system and see how it does, if it's as good as they say we'll convert all trucks to this system.
What ever it takes to get water on the fire faster and safer, driving tankers faster is not safer
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