Hose Pack and Accessories

The equipment that is pictured and described below has become the standard hose packs for several area fire departments.  The reason for the change to 2 ½ inch hose is the fire load and the fire area that has to be addressed.  Fire load changes with more plastics and other man made materials means hotter fires.  Fire Area has become a bigger problem due to the open air space theory of office management where only 5-6 foot cubicles are used to separate spaces.  Consider a 30 foot by 30 foot office space 50 % involved and think about the fire flow required.  Also consider the basis that fire flow calculations are not really accounting for the increased BTUs being released by these man made materials.  You could say that this fire could be extinguished with 150-200 GPMs, however we have not addressed reaction time and how big that fire will be by the time we get water on it. 

 1   100 foot section of 2 ½ light weight high rise hose

 50 foot section of 2 ½ light weight high rise hose

 Smooth bore nozzle with 1 ¼ tip capable of flowing 330 GPM

Also an additional 50 foot section of light weight 2 ½ high rise hose is carried in a role.  This is for extending the line or if you are the 2nd line and you have to drop 2 floors below the fire to hook to the standpipe.  We have found that some hose lays are 300 feet in these office buildings.

The accessory bag and accessories carried include but are not limited to the pictured items.  

• Spanner wrenches carried for the obvious
• Wedges carried to secure doors
• Utility rope to secure lines if necessary
• 30 degree elbow to make the turn off of the standpipe
• Inline pressure gauge so the control man can monitor pressure on the line ensuring adequate GPMs
• Adapters to different threads potentially on Standpipes
• Pipe Wrench
• Extra Control Valve Wheels

 Positions on the line will be discussed at a later time along with    more specific information on BTUs and Fire Load.

 Prepare and Train for the Big Fire and the littler ones will be much easier to handle.