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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 plumbing system.
5-inch (13 cm) flex suction hose with Storz fittings, mounted on an engine. Flexible suction hose (Flex suction or suction hose), not to be confused with hard suction hose in U.S., is a specific type of fire hose used in drafting operations, when a fire engine uses a vacuum to draw water from a portable water tank, pool, or other static water source.
The dry chemical hose, much like the front handline, had an electric rewind system activated with a button mounted above the reel. The PKP canister was a large, upright tank with two hoses attached to a valve on top of the canister. One hose carried an inflow of pressurized nitrogen, and the other was an output to the 100-foot hose reel. [3]
Prices vary depending on hose length and other factors; the 10-piece private hydrant configuration recommended by the Corral Canyon Fire Safety Alliance totals $1,571 on FireHoseDirect's website.
John Morris and Sons' first motor driven "first-aid motor fire engine" was built in 1905 for Cape Town's Metropolitan Fire Service. [7] It was fitted with a 30–40 h.p. Belsize engine and provided accommodation for six firemen. [8] The first motor-driven fire-pump built by John Morris and Sons was for the Bury Town Council.
This method of storing hose is designed for rapid deployment of a hose line to attack a fire. In this manner, the hose is stored perpendicularly across the fire apparatus, usually above or adjacent to the pump panel, instead of the usual parallel storage in the rear. This allows the firefighter to pull the hose in the direction of the fire ...
The Pyrene Company Limited from their beginning in 1914, until 1971 when they became Chubb Fire Security Limited, were among the world's leaders in the manufacture of fire fighting equipment. The name Pyrene was epitomised by their famous 'pump' extinguisher which was installed on public transport, commercial and private vehicles throughout the ...
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