How to hook up to a fire hydrant and pull hose
How to hook up to a fire hydrant and pull hose
The first thing you need to know about hooking up to a hydrant is it’s the most critical thing at a fire. If you can’t get connected to a hydrant you have no water to put on the fire. So there’s a couple steps to this process. You need to know where your hydrant bag is. This bag includes everything you need to make the connection beside the hose. This include your hydrant wrench, your rubber mallet, your adapter to connect your storks to the hydrant, you got your deuce and a half shutoff, and lastly spanner wrenches. So when you get toned out to a fire you are going to be told what to do on the way. You need to have full PPE (personal protective equipment). So if you’re told to hook up to the hydrant you need to know your steps. First grab the hydrant bag and throw it to the hydrant you will hop up on the steps and find the rope wrapped around your 5 inch and pull it off then wrap it and hook it up. So to go into more detail about pulling your hose. You are going to make sure when you find this rope and pull it, make sure that coupling doesn’t hit you in the head. You should have your helmet on anyway. There should be a 20 foot section n this roped section. When you pull it off wrap that section all the way around the hydrant. If you don’t wrap it all the way the engine will pull off and t will take you will it. Once you see its unfolding out of the hose bed you can go ahead and check you duce and a half connections to see if they are tight. If they aren’t and you open it up it can blow off and take out a knee. When you are working a hydrant ALWAYS stay behind it! If you stand in front or on the sides of a hydrant you will lose you private area or your knee caps. If the two and a half cap hits you in the knee you probably won’t be a firefighter ever again. So after you wrap your hydrant and tell them to go you will start on opening it. First you are going to want to make sure your two, two and a half
The first thing you need to know about hooking up to a hydrant is it’s the most critical thing at a fire. If you can’t get connected to a hydrant you have no water to put on the fire. So there’s a couple steps to this process. You need to know where your hydrant bag is. This bag includes everything you need to make the connection beside the hose. This include your hydrant wrench, your rubber mallet, your adapter to connect your storks to the hydrant, you got your deuce and a half shutoff, and lastly spanner wrenches. So when you get toned out to a fire you are going to be told what to do on the way. You need to have full PPE (personal protective equipment). So if you’re told to hook up to the hydrant you need to know your steps. First grab the hydrant bag and throw it to the hydrant you will hop up on the steps and find the rope wrapped around your 5 inch and pull it off then wrap it and hook it up. So to go into more detail about pulling your hose. You are going to make sure when you find this rope and pull it, make sure that coupling doesn’t hit you in the head. You should have your helmet on anyway. There should be a 20 foot section n this roped section. When you pull it off wrap that section all the way around the hydrant. If you don’t wrap it all the way the engine will pull off and t will take you will it. Once you see its unfolding out of the hose bed you can go ahead and check you duce and a half connections to see if they are tight. If they aren’t and you open it up it can blow off and take out a knee. When you are working a hydrant ALWAYS stay behind it! If you stand in front or on the sides of a hydrant you will lose you private area or your knee caps. If the two and a half cap hits you in the knee you probably won’t be a firefighter ever again. So after you wrap your hydrant and tell them to go you will start on opening it. First you are going to want to make sure your two, two and a half