Methinks any tanker better than no tanker.
4 x 6000 or 7000L tankers immediately available is better
than 1 x 14,000L in 2011. Reasonable band-aid, pending
long-term fix.
Might be faster delivery of water to appliances too but I'm
too tired to think through the maths of that one just now.
At Arcadia in '01 (?) we used a shuttle of 4 or 5 x 34s plus
Burnside & another tanker to keep Dural 1 topped up & pumping.
If anything, we just need more of them, earlier at fires.
I'd go so far as to suggest if a 34 can't get a full fire-fighting
crew, they should respond anyway & operate as a light tanker.
cheers