The Monmouth Junction Volunteer Fire Department was founded in 1924 and proudly serves South Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey. This You Tube channel is primarily for educational purposes for the members of our Fire Department, from the newest probationary firefighter to the senior-most veteran. We will post videos about our members, apparatus, equipment, training evolutions, and some of the actual calls we respond to. We also hope to showcase our organization to the community we serve, recruit new members, and share information with other fire departments around the nation. Thank you for checking out our videos!
In my department we use hose cutter ,at arrival after laying down the hose the pump operator would go back put the hose cutter and forget for the moment the hydrant and give the first attack line watter and when reddy he would connect hydrant hose to the pump.
I’m a pump operator been on for almost 25 years just want to say thanks for the video nowadays there is a lot on RU-vid, which is a good thing and like someone else said Murphy’s Law at every fire it’s good to just look at all these videos pick out what you need to know for your situation and maybe learn something from somebody else. Thanks again for the video your time.
Let me give you a second method to stab the hydrant. If you wrap the hose around the hydrant and the hose snags and locks up coming out of the back. Either the hydrant cracks or the hose rips. Instead bring the hose six feet past the hydrant and fold it back against the hydrant and bring the hose couple up pass the hydrant. Then place your foot on fold against the hydrant. The hose couple face the truck. If it snags it will just pull out from your foot and go down the street.
In that scenario, the 4-way valve is not necessary. Just hook the LDH suction line to the large port on the hydrant, then pump through the line that was reverse laid back to the first engine. Saves a step and a piece of equipment.
During my career we called them 4-way valves and they work great, especially in areas where you have and use hydrants a lot, and run two-piece engine companies (or single engines that are used to working one as attack and one as supply). Great tool.
Its shameful that Americans are using threaded connections for firefighting. Follow the rest of the world with quick connects and save more lives by being quicker...
Bad thing about wrapping the hydrant is if that hose gets stuck which can happen (Murphys law) it has the ability to rip the hydrant off its mounting bolts to the ground
Other thing is I wouldn't personally set up the gate and stortz adapters until after flushing/testing the hydrant first. Would hate to do all of that just to find out the hydrant is frozen, busted, non functioning, etc. I know each department has different SOPs though. Just going based off of what I was taught.
Hypothetically, if the hydrant is only capable of 1500gpm, how is robbing water from the same outlet port going to increase water output? Your utilizing the same GPM …
We knee on the supply hose when doing a reverse lay or any lay. If that second connection catches, it's gonna pull right out of the firefighters hands and rip/mess up that engines suction/intake. Otherwise like the idea of testing/flushing hydrant to check for debris if there's time. Definitely if you roll up and a caps off/missing.
Flushing only 2.5 inch would meet the standards of Flushing a hydrant?? Back in my day I was taught to flush the 5inch side of hydrant to ensure ALL debris was flushed. Which would include soda cans or other large debris. Please and thank you.
That 2.5 inch gated valve looks like a good way to cannon shot a hypodermic needle into some unsuspecting person walking past. Definitely flush from the 5 inch, without all the pressure before any hookup of things
i am a volunteer firefighter from austria. I am asking myself, why this firefighter needs his SCBA while operating a hydrant, and i am wondering why he takes that less care about his face mask.
I hang my mask on my shoulder strap. I see some guys attach it to there regulator like this but it just gets in the way. And yes, after you tag the hydrant, it’s on to the next task, which could put you in IDLH.
@@Bukhumdum This must be suburbs of Boston and not the city. No, busy city does half the nonsense you guys did. It's clear to busy departments...you don't do much work.
It is a 3-valve storz adaptor. So you can change to another hose line e.g. with direct pumper and use a far hydrant or open water over a pump to connect a new supply hose line - all without break the water supply from this hydrant. It have a built-in not-reverse too - so dry hydrants can't suck water back. I see this often at departments with storz-coupling systems. But funny that the hydrants have one or two extra outputs on the side. One for extra open for flush is okay but two? No one from the U.S.A use it direct to a hose line these days. An example for this 3-valve storz adaptor: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PYaBvYVj7tY.html
Ideally all hydrants would have two steamer nozzles to get the most hydraulically efficiency, make them 5” Storz for convenience. But, the tradition is set. You can spec double steamers from most manufacturers though.
Why would the supply (second due?) if that’s what you mean, engine stop and give the tank to the first due. The attack engine already has water. The point of the second due engine in this scenario, obviously, is to get water to the first due engine. It wasn’t mentioned in the video, or maybe I missed it, but this looked like a relay pump. This is clearly a training video, so the fact that the 2 engines were right next to each other in this video makes it confusing to some. These guys probably only had a small parking lot to work with in their town. If that second due engine has to lay a lot of length, then they would relay. Did you see the HAV? If your department’s (or you) second due engines strategy is stopping to give tank water to another engine, and then find water.. that would HENIOUSLY reduce “the time to get water to the attack engine”
@@Bukhumdum if i understand your reply, i think you misunderstood me. after the supply engine stops at the hydrant, send their tank water before hooking up to the hydrant. in this drill, the supply engine took 3 minutes to get water to the attack engine.
@@joshuahollar9880 You're a clueless VOLLY! I forgot more than you know. here's a quote from probably the last time you're little dept went to a fire, 2020...."Firefighters performed an aggressive fire attack and were able to contain the fire to the single bedroom." AMATEURS
Most important piece of plastic a firefighter owns got pretty banged up during this basic evolution. Use the D-ring on the face piece and clip it to the halter snap on the right shoulder strap to protect it. Better yet, don't lay out with your SCBA on. Otherwise, excellent and thorough step-by-step explanation of this important skill.
Thank you for these videos. As a new FF I'm still learning the basics of how these kinds of operations go. Seeing it in action along with an explanation is very helpful.
