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Skills covered during the May 30th VFD Hose Clinic
VFD Hose Handling Clinic Outline.pdf
- Advancing hose from an apparatus – the covering amount and making sure the bed is empty
- Flaking out a pre-connect
- Preconnect flip & payoff
- Advancing forwards from the rear of an apparatus
- Flaking lines prior to entry – take your time and the modified standpipe
- Coil method
- 65mm Defensive Hose Lay
- Attack over supply
- Extending and reducing hose lines – the hose isn’t long enough, or we need smaller lines
- Extend 65 or 44 using…
- Hose clamp
- More hose
- Reduce 65 to 44 using…
- Hose clamp
- Gated-wye
- 44 hose
- 44 nozzle
- Extend 65 or 44 using…
- Advancing lines up stairwells – two lines max and estimating hose needed
- Two firefighter shoulder load & payoff
- Coil up the stairs
- Stairway well hose stretch
- Multiple options
- Flaking out hose in stairwells – gravity is your friend
- On landing above (coil or accordion)
- Stairwell above (find the middle)
- Coming from below
- Managing friction points & advancing hose that has been laid out and charged – a firefighter at each friction point
- Interior hose handling