TENDER SAFETY
AFD limits tender speed at both fill and dump sites to this speed.
What is 5 mph?
A nursing operation is considered this type of water supply and does not eliminate the need to establish a more reliable source.
What is a temporary water supply?
AFD identifies this as the ideal minimum apparatus assignment for a water shuttle operation.
What are two engine companies and three tenders?
When an engine is established on a hydrant at the fill site, it pumps this pressure into the intake of the receiving tender.
What is 100 psi?
Before returning an apparatus to reserve status, AFD requires it to be restored to ready condition, including these three basic tasks.
What are washing, refueling, and restocking?
After dumping its water, a tender may weigh as much as this many pounds less than when loaded.
What is 21,000 pounds?
When nursing an engine, AFD directs the tender Engineer to initially pump the nurse line at this pressure.
What is 100 psi?
Once a water shuttle is initiated, Incident Command assigns this position to supervise the water-supply operation.
What is the Water Supply Officer, or WSO?
AFD identifies this as the ideal number of Fold-A-Tanks at the dump site.
What are three Fold-A-Tanks?
Reserve apparatus are required to carry this amount of hose compared with an in-service apparatus.
What is the same complement of hose?
When backing near a Fold-A-Tank, the spotter must never position themselves here.
What is between the Fold-A-Tank and the apparatus?
Because of their plumbing design, some KME tenders are limited to approximately this flow range when pumping from their onboard tanks.
What is approximately 350–450 gpm?
This route configuration is preferred so tenders traveling to and from the fire do not interfere with each other.
What is a circular route of travel?
AFD recommends this size manned fill line for filling tenders and notes that 5-inch hose has shown no significant turnaround-time advantage.
What is a 3-inch fill line?
Except for legitimate maintenance or operational use, AFD prohibits doing this with equipment assigned to a reserve apparatus.
What is removing, appropriating, dismantling, altering, or reallocating it to another apparatus?
Personnel working within this distance of an open water's edge must wear a personal flotation device.
What is 10 feet?
During nursing operations, the tender Engineer may temporarily count toward 2-in/2-out if these conditions are met.
What is being fully equipped and ready to make entry?
When terrain allows, loaded tenders should travel in this direction on a grade, while empty tenders should travel in the opposite direction.
What is full tenders downhill and empty tenders
Unless otherwise directed, tenders should avoid dumping water into this Fold-A-Tank because turbulence may disrupt the drafting operation.
What is the primary draft tank?
This crew is responsible for periodic inventories, Wednesday checks, maintenance documentation, discrepancies, and required work orders.
What is the crew possessing the reserve apparatus?
Water tenders make up less than 3% of fire apparatus but account for approximately this percentage of firefighter fatalities involving emergency vehicles.
What is 21%?
As soon as a nursing operation begins, the Engineer should immediately anticipate this next water-supply operation and begin staging the necessary equipment.
What is a water shuttle?
Water-shuttle communications are assigned this, and all water-supply communications are directed through the WSO.
What is a separate TAC channel?
During filling, the tender Engineer remains in the cab, sets this brake, and engages this system before fill-site personnel operate the pump panel.
What are the parking brake and the pump, using the “Hot Switch”?
Whenever an apparatus is switched into or out of service, AFD requires notification of this agency and confirmation that these have been updated in the computer system.
What are Dispatch and the apparatus designators?