Burnover Training

[littlejohn]

Quite agree - the 30 length hose lays weren't at the bluff!

[Pipster]

They may not have been at the bluff, but they were at some other fires..   :-(

Pip

[5271rescue]

For those that have done the forestry hose lay course you will know that CFS say 10 lenghts is the max,so if a officer tells you to lay more hose I think I would question him/her on this and may be bring them back into the real world...

[Blue]

If you're laying that much hose maybe you should have gone in from the other side of the plantation compartment  :lol:

[5271rescue]

Must also have a big pump to do that much pumping of water...

[Blue]

Especially if it's up a hill like the side of the Bluff  :-P *phew*

[Camo]

Blue, Remember the fireking we were working with on the side of the bluff friday night?

That was about 6 lengths up a 30 degree? angle and the fireking was screaming.  Imagine a CFS truck trying to do that. haha  :lol:

[Scania_1]

Have heard stories about NSW fires in the 90`s. 4-5 CFS appliances were stripped of hose to do a hose lay down hill. The pump was just ticking over due to the gain in gravity.

[5271rescue]

Cam,the fireking that we were working near had 10 lenghts of hose out up a hill no crew at applinace pump running like mad..They where being filled all the time by the tanker that just came and filled them and that was  all it did..

[Blue]

Yes indeedy I remember Cam - wasn't just the Fireking screaming, so were my calves after going back and forth with a strangler and trying to find the owner of that torch  :lol: I counted six lengths of hose, but then it did go off across the hill face too at one stage? You're right, we may well have blown up a 24 doing the same thing  :-P

There were no crew at that Fireking cos in fact they are run by trained monkeys. These monkeys sit on the rear dead reel when they aren't busy.