Then he should’ve crawled up towards the end but this guy clearly couldn’t handle it. All I Want For Christmas Is Chimichanga Shirt it’s common sense right?! You lay on the part where it’s calm and work your way up! Idk why this guy couldn’t see that. You should come on base and we do a trial run. It hasn’t but to my roommate in tech school. One of his instructors asked him how did he know what to do. And he said I just jumped on the hose and pinned it down. Away from the end you grab the hose and force an “S” bend in it and use the weight of your body, so that the nozzle end of it has reduced flow.
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You can reduce it to a trickle. Learned that in firefighting school in the army. As a trained firefighter, at such situation, you may no need to knock off the hydrant or pump. Just put the hose in between your legs and trace the changed branch. That is the standard operating procedure at such situation. If this is not done professionally, it may result in to a severe injury. Dangerous as hell doin it i personally watched a firefighter get almost all his front teeth knocked out and a ton of stitches in his lips and under his eyes on his cheek bones.

Pump switch operator should have simply reduced line pressure until it was under control … Gene Lesieur you are on point, it depends on the bar pressure at which the branch fell, if it is lower than 3bars one can retrace it in between legs especially in a desperate risk area that you need the charged hose as defence. we went to clean the damn thing and ended up making an even bigger mess than before…even worse, we got the neighbour’s balcony below covered in wet soil.

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This training session is presenting the situation while on scene with a structure fire or etc. and one hose line in the supply line fails. You have to have Control, too prevent injuries. Need to replace the failed hose.lone with two sections. To continue to fight . Kind of figured it was. I believe that once he gave up. You see the water stop flowing. But yes, not using the proper procedure in that situation could get you severely hurt. Colin – MANY times it is lkely to happen out of the pump-operator’s sight, which bis why we trained.

BUT He ought to have been told HOW first, saves both time AND water. There is no proper procedure to chase a charged loose hose except shut it down or hose clamp it .very dangerous. Had coupling hit me when testing hose and a section blew, they hurt. How about the basics like having a pump operator at the truck at all times, having radio communication with all crews, hose handling skills that prevent dropped lines in the first place? Shaking my head at all the “experts” on this thread. I’m with you guys.

Never had to recover a dropped line and have never seen one have to be recovered. All I Want For Christmas Is Chimichanga Shirt this is some good fun at the end of the day. Should you know how to recover? Of course in 13 yrs I never had that issue or saw one. This was probably some guys training/having fun the end is clearly cut with just enough pressure to make the line dance. No harm no foul. Well said. Idiotic training ideas that are so dangerous. Are these instructors trying to make boys into men or something? A hose that powerful should never be operated by one person.