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[DragonClaw]

Hose dragger stuff. 4” is the main supply line that fire uses from fire hydrants and the bed is where all the hose lays so it can be rapidly deployed. So in this case it was 1000 feet of hose that has a 4 in diameter.

AKA it's heavy? What's standard girth?

 

[GMCmedic]

AKA it's heavy? What's standard girth?

We use 5 inch in my area.

 

[DesertMedic66]

AKA it's heavy? What's standard girth?

Heavy enough to be a pain to clean and reload/relay. Hoses vary depending on what they are used for. You can have anything from 1/2-3/4 for mop up operations to 1 3/4 for wildland, to 2 1/2 for structure fires, to your 3-5” for supply line

TLDR: firefighters enjoy hoses of different girths and often enjoy sharing them with other firefighters.

 

[Jim37F]

Yeah we have 4 sizes of hose available. 1", 1¾", 2½", and 4". 4 inch is our Large Diameter Hose (LDH) for water supply (hydrant to engine, or engine to engine relay). It comes in 100 feet stretches (all the rest of our hose is 50 foot sections), and a roll weighs something like 70ish pounds?

They don't unroll easy either for cleaning/repacking, so that's a chore, and yeah, hauling a thousand feet of 4" back into the bed of the engine is not fun (like almost rather be doing Salvage and Overhaul instead lol)

 

[ffemt8978]

AKA it's heavy? What's standard girth?

After fighting a fire, it feels like it weighs over a ton per inch.

 

[DragonClaw]

After fighting a fire, it feels like it weighs over a ton per inch.

After that adrenaline wears off comes the crash

 

[Jim37F]

Especially when when the call comes in (1730-1800ish, I forget the exact time), you are doing cardio and then have to sprint back to station... and by time you're repacking hose at 2100, you realize you haven't actually had dinner yet lol

 

[silver]

If someone is freshly dead, would BP be zero or low? Would there be residual pressure?

There is a pressure yes but won't be detectable on NIBP.

 

[CALEMT]

AKA it's heavy?

+/- 60 pounds per 50' dry depending on the manufacture. When its wet you're talking 100+ pounds. When we re-bed LDH we roll it then jam a pry bar in the center and have one person on each side holding it while its being re-bed.

After that adrenaline wears off comes the crash

Naw, its because you've been in full gear for hours on end and smoked a couple of bottles (air). My last fire was about 2 hours in length and in that two hours I downed like 3 SCOTT 45 minute bottles.

 

[Jim37F]

+/- 60 pounds per 50' dry depending on the manufacture. When its wet you're talking 100+ pounds. When we re-bed LDH we roll it then jam a pry bar in the center and have one person on each side holding it while its being re-bed.

Thats a common method here. Not too bad for 1 or 200 feet. But some companies made a "Lazy Susan" like device (two flat square planks of wood on top of one another, that can spin around 360°, place the 4" on top and can feed from the roll spinning in place on the ground while the rest are muling and folding it into place in the bed

 

[CALEMT]

Thats a common method here. Not too bad for 1 or 200 feet. But some companies made a "Lazy Susan" like device (two flat square planks of wood on top of one another, that can spin around 360°, place the 4" on top and can feed from the roll spinning in place on the ground while the rest are muling and folding it into place in the bed

When the shoulders start aching, which doesn't talk long haha we use the butterfly method. You can probably GTS a video about it that explains it easier than I can.

 

[ffemt8978]

Sucks even worse when you have to re-lay the attack lines because your forgot to put the grab loops in.

Don't ask me how I know.

 

[DragonClaw]

Sucks even worse when you have to re-lay the attack lines because your forgot to put the grab loops in.

Don't ask me how I know.

What's a grab loop

 

[DesertMedic66]

What's a grab loop

A loop in the hose that you pull to give you a predetermined length of hose.

 

[GMCmedic]

Loading 5" is more fun with rookies.

 

[VFlutter]

A lot of Air Methods people are about to jump on the Keto bandwagon

 

[DesertMedic66]

A lot of Air Methods people are about to jump on the Keto bandwagon

Yep haha. We have 1 medic and 2 nurses at my base who have some weight to cut

 

[Jim37F]

They're getting smaller helicopters?

 

[DesertMedic66]

They're getting smaller helicopters?

Medical crew weight limit just put in place. 225lbs max weight.

 

[DragonClaw]

Medical crew weight limit just put in place. 225lbs max weight.

But that's 2 small people....