Pump and suppy ops in 1 hour?

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Permalink Reply by Bobby on March 16, 2009 at 12:43am

Go over the basics, drafting, flow some different size hose lines, play pipes, attack lines, master streams, etc. Cover forward and reverse lays. Also have a 2nd instructor to cover hoselines for those who aren't Operators. I don't have any literature for ya. That should get the wheels turning. An hour is a little short for anything major.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Owens on March 19, 2009 at 9:54pm

Stick to the basics and whatn your department does. If you are running SFD fires then go over how to foward lay, reverse, lay, and split lay and what lines ot pull and how to pump it for these fires. Also go over the 2 1/2 and how to properly pump it and man it. I have attached a few things for ya to use one is power point my company did on 2 1/2 hand lines, one is a quick drill that you can do that alla apparatus operators should learn, and the other is an article on short handed engine company operations. Feel free to use them as you wish just dont try and publish them.

Attachments:

• 2 ½.ppt, 22.5 MB
• ONE MAN LADDER DRAG.doc, 139 KB
• Shorthanded Engine tips v2.doc, 33 KB

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Permalink Reply by Adam on March 22, 2009 at 4:57am

I don't get here often, lol, but I will drop my opinion in.

In an hour, not a lot you can cover but a lot you can go over. On thing I would hit would be different size lines and what pressures to pump them at and how to pump different pressure lines. You can cover forward and reverse supply lays as well. The last D/O (driver/operator) drill we did was taking an 1 3/4" line off and securing your own supply. Now we all know it was bogus, but we parked like 15ft. from a hydrant. The drill was good, you had to get out of the rig and do it all, put it into gear and everything. Once you had water to your crews then you had to get your supply and get onto hydrant water and off tank water.

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Permalink Reply by FETC on March 22, 2009 at 7:51am

One hour huh?

Drafting; Dumping; Flowing Line - All Hands On.

Pull out the tanker, set up a porta tank, (tank-1) dump your tanker water into the tank-1, set-up second porta tank (tank-2), assemble siphon jet transferring water from tank 1 to 2, now setup your drafting ops from tank-2, and then pump the water back into porta tank-1.

I would cycle the personnel through the set-up, drafting and pumping operation, three phases have an officer on each step and this will maximize your hour for the entire audience. 15 minute cycles, then rotate, the fourth cycle being pickup reservice of equipment.

TCSS
FETC

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Permalink Reply by Khadija Montoya on March 27, 2009 at 8:53pm

Thank you to everyone who responded to this post! It was a good training, a beautiful day and confidence building. Thank you.

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