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  2. Hose strap - Wikipedia

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    Hose strap. A hose strap (also known as a rope hose tool) is a piece of firefighting equipment. It can be "a short length of rope with an eye loop at one end and a metal hook at the other" [ 1] or a piece of "flat nylon webbing sewn into a four-foot loop". [ 2] Such a tool is routinely carried by firefighters in their structural turnout gear as ...

  3. Glossary of firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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    A. Adapter. Fitting for connecting hose couplings with dissimilar threads but with the same inside diameter. [1] See also reducer, increaser, double male, double female. May contain combinations, such as a double-female reducer. Adapters between multiple hoses are called wye, Siamese, or distributor, which see below.

  4. Pulaski (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Pulaski (tool) A Pulaski combines the functions of an axe and an adze in one tool. The Pulaski is a specialty hand tool used in fighting fires, particularly wildfires, [1] which combines an axe and an adze in one head. Similar to a cutter mattock, it has a rigid handle of wood, plastic, or fiberglass. The Pulaski was developed for constructing ...

  5. Halligan bar - Wikipedia

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    History. The Halligan bar was designed by New York City Fire Department (FDNY) First Deputy Chief Hugh Halligan in 1948 and was named after him. That same year, blacksmith Peter Clarke made the first prototype of the tool. [3] Despite its popularity among FDNY ladder companies, the department initially refrained from purchasing the tool to ...

  6. Storz - Wikipedia

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    Storz is a type of hose coupling invented by Carl August Guido Storz [de] in 1882 and patented in Switzerland in 1890, and patented in the U.S. in 1893 [1] that connects using interlocking hooks and flanges. It was first specified in standard FEN 301-316, and has been used by German fire brigades since 1933. (See German delivery hose article.)

  7. New York roof hook - Wikipedia

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    The New York roof hook (or halligan hook) is a firefighting tool used mostly for rooftop operations including vertical and horizontal ventilation, [1] pulling and prying. Developed in the 1940s by FDNY Deputy Chief Hugh Halligan, a prolific firefighting inventor who also designed the Halligan bar , the tool is composed of a 6-foot (1.8 m) long ...

  8. Fire hose - Wikipedia

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    Fire hose. Indoor fire hose with a fire extinguisher. A fire hose (or firehose) is a high-pressure hose that carries water or other fire retardant (such as foam) to a fire to extinguish it. Outdoors, it attaches either to a fire engine, fire hydrant, or a portable fire pump. [1] Indoors, it can permanently attach to a building's standpipe or ...

  9. Standpipe (firefighting) - Wikipedia

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    Standpipe (firefighting) A standpipe or riser is a type of rigid water piping which is built into multi-story buildings in a vertical position, or into bridges in a horizontal position, to which fire hoses can be connected, allowing manual application of water to the fire. Within the context of a building or bridge, a standpipe serves the same ...

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