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This 2023 unit carries 4550 L of water, and can empty its tank in less than a minute if flowing at max capacity.
What is Engine 1?
The only way of reducing friction loss, without lowering/limiting the flow of water.
What is increase the size (diameter) of the hose?
This sprinklered building has an FDC located on Stanley street.
What is the Eagle Builders Center?
This application method involves directing a foam stream on the ground near the front edge of a burning liquid, and allowing the generation of foam to push across the liquid without spraying on the liquid.
What is the Roll-on Method?
This valve is actuated to pull air out of a suction line, pulling water into the pump.
What is a primer?
This unit has the lowest rated pump of all our units, tested to flow 454 Lpm.
What is Brush 1?
This nozzle requires 700 kPa at the nozzle to operate effectively, and not jeopardize the safety of the operator.
What is a Fog Nozzle
This industrial business recently installed a firefighting water supply, allowing us to draft without the immediate need for a tender in their non-hydrant supplied area.
What is Bizisul?
This foam mixing appliance generally requires a flow rate of 95 gpm to be effective at mixing foam.
What is an inline eductor?
This piece of equipment should always be deployed before a portable water tank, to decrease the chances of catastrophic failure in the tank wall or bottom.
What is a Tarp?
This amount of water, enough to fill the hard frame portable water tanks, is the tender's Tank Capacity.
What is 13248L (13,000L or 3,500Gal)?
This pump theory is calculated by multiplying the length of the hose, flow rate, and the coefficient of the hose, and is the first step of calculating pump discharge pressure
What is Friction Loss?
This rural neighbourhood poses the largest Wildland Urban Interface risk within our district, and has limited water supply.
What is Burbank?
This method of proportioning foam involves guess and test by dumping buckets of foam into portable tanks, typically resulting in a large pile of bubbles, and a gathering of questionable individuals looking for a 'foam party'.
What is Batch mixing?
Dump and Fill sites should be set up to avoid doing this with an apparatus.
What is backing up?
This unit's internal foam eductor limits foam to only one discharge on the apparatus, unless inline eductors are utilized.
What is Engine 2
175 kPa should be added to the pump discharge pressure when pumping a line with this type of device.
What is a Master Stream?
A building on this dead end road is currently the largest residential building in Blackfalds.
What is Parkwood Rd?
Currently the most common type of foam concentrate, reduces the surface tension of water to keep it from beading up, instead creating a very thin liquid film to cover fuel products.
What is AFFF (Aqueous Film Forming Foam)
When multiple portable tanks are deployed for one engine, this device can be utilized on the hard suction hoses between tanks to allow the attack pump operator to move water between tanks, keeping their supply tank full.
What is a Jet Syphon?
Year to date, this apparatus has responded to the most incidents, having responded to 38% of total calls.
What is Engine 1
35 kPa should be added or taken away from the pump discharge pressure to account for this change if applicable.
What is elevation gain or loss (35kPa per 10ft or 1 story)
This street, within town limits, houses 4 residences that do not have hydrants within driving distance (+700ft)
What is South Street?
The cheapest, and thus most common, type of proportioner installed in pumps, this system uses a bypass from the discharge of the pump, to create a venturi effect, sucking foam into the mix, and being re-introduced to the intake of the pump, putting a similarly mixed foam solution in all discharges.
What is Around the Pump Proportioner.
This one-way drive time is the maximum distance away from a hydrant that our tender can continually sustain 2 - 38mm lines while doing a water shuttle, without requiring additional tenders.
What is 3 minutes drive from the closest hydrant.
(13000*0.9 = 11,700 @ 950 l/m = 12.5 mins. 4 min fill, 2.5 min dump = 6 min drive round trip, 3 each way)