Cat 1
Portable tanks near the fire scene where the attack pumper drafts for fire attack
Dump Site
Best dump site location on a dead end street?
Goal of the fill site
safely and efficiently loading tenders
Best way to control flow from the fill site pumper
discharge gates on the pumping apparatus
NFPA 1901 fill rate for a tender
1000 gpm
What should you take into consideration for the fill site?
Location, travel time and water capacity of the fill site
When do you summon more tenders?
when demands outpaces supply
In the ISO formula what is factored into the Travel time formula?
Acceleration and deceleration times
What size pump MUST a water tender be equipped with?
Does not have to have one.
Goal of using multiple portable tanks
keep the attack pumper portable tank full
What does the Water Supply Branch manager do?
Immediate coordination of two or more water shuttle operations.
One method of calculating a flow rate for a specific tender relies on actual field tests conducted under realistic water shuttle conditions and measures the data by:
Dividing the amount of water the tender dumped during the trial run by the time the round trip took.
What is a pumper/tender?
Over 750 gpm pump
How many basic methods for calculating flow rate for a tender?
2
Fill site pump operator should be in view of what 2 things at the same time?
Water source and tender being filled.
ISO uses ____ percent of a tender's total tank capacity to account for water lost undischarged and remaining in the tank.
90
Sump site, fill site, travel route, number of apparatus
What is a the dump site?
location near the fire scene used to draft water from portable tanks that are filled by water tenders making shuttle runs to and from the fill site
How many direct tank fill connectors do normal tender have?
Dos
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