Posted by docmirror on March 18, 2018 at 07:40:29 from (107.213.165.255):
In Reply to: Home fire fighting posted by JimS on March 16, 2018 at 19:02:47:
I have a structure in the NM mountains with heavy pine and fir all around me. It would be a big job to cut back 100' clearance around the home, and I really don't want to do that either. I spoke with our local fire dept chief and of course, he said mitigation first is far better than fighting the fire once going. But - his suggestion which I took up was to get a very old pumper and tank from a decommissioned fire station, make sure the hoses and pump are good and have it parked and ready to use.
His rationale, which makes perfect sense to me is that much of the equip from the 70s and 80s is hardly used, and with some careful maint and new hoses can still be very effective.
Last fall I bought a 1989 Hush pumper with 750 gal and two discharge ports which can deliver 1000GPM. I had to fix the brakes, and some other small jobs but now it sits behind my house, ready to work. It took me two weeks to learn all the stuff, how to pump, how to spray, and lots of time testing things.
The only downside to this is that if the smoke is too heavy for people to breath, it's also too heavy for the engine to run. Same with the small home pumper systems. I figure if I don't use it, someone from the fire station will get it running and make use of it. I can't keep the tank filled in winter as it will freeze and destroy the pump and maybe the tank. I'm going up there in early April and fill it up, and check everything out again.
It has the good old Detroit diesel and Allison auto trans, bulletproof to run, but takes a lot of gas.
I paid $7000 for it, and drove it from central NE to middle of NM.
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