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 

[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  *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 

[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  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 

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.