Size of BWC's

[6739264]

how can you fill 9000L of appliances...with a 7000L Tank,  Fire Gun???

sure 7000L would be good for "Top ups"...but hey...we should be assuming they will run DRY.

He is making the assumption that crews adhere to the 20% in reserve SOP's, and hence each fill is only 2400L, making total fill 7200L.

In my experiance we run our trucks near dry if the conditions allow it.

[misterteddy]

how can you fill 9000L of appliances...with a 7000L Tank,  Fire Gun???

sure 7000L would be good for "Top ups"...but hey...we should be assuming they will run DRY.

He is making the assumption that crews adhere to the 20% in reserve SOP's, and hence each fill is only 2400L, making total fill 7200L.

In my experiance we run our trucks near dry if the conditions allow it.

does the tanker on a fireground have to keep his 20% safe margin if he has a hoseline?

[Zippy]

lol....

[Alan J]

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

[Zippy]

Yeah i agree with the use of 34's as Light BWC's.  Crew of 2 should be fine. Have the other two placed on the fire appliances to assist the operations.