Products Needed:. It has a female connection on each end, with one end matching the local hydrant threads and the other end matching the threads on a large-diameter inlet to the engine. A hard suction hose is a special type of supply hose that is used to draft water from a static source such as a river, lake, or portable drafting basin. This procedure is similar to the reverse lay evolution, except that the hose will be used as an attack line. Attack hose is loaded so that it can be quickly and easily deployed.
The three most common hose loads used for preconnected attack lines are the minuteman load, the flat load, and the triple-layer load. Flare Nut Wrench — Similar to a box wrench, a flare nut wrench is double-ended, but instead of a fully closed loop, the ends have five sides. In Germany, again hydrants are placed below the ground. Thus, they use marker plates to identify their location. Fire hydrant plates are always surrounded by a red border. They denote whether the hydrant is under the ground or in rare cases, above ground , the inner diameter of the pipe in millimeters, the distance from the plate in meters, and this is always given to the nearest ten centimeters.
A fire hydrant is simply a place that a firefighter can connect to and get access to the local water supply. The simplest example of active fire protection is a fire extinguisher which requires that you pick it up and use it on fire. Another example could be a sprinkler which requires either activation by a button or an electronic code to activate.
Fire hydrants are only of use in fighting fires when they are actively used by firefighters. The firefighter will attach a supply hose to the hydrant. Once this is attached, they open a valve on the hydrant to provide a flow of water. This is much, much powerful than the flow of water in a typical garden hose and can easily reach 50 lbs.
The precise pressure depends on the hydrant, the location of the main, the hose in use, etc. When the hose is connected to the hydrant it might use a quick connector, a Storz connector invented by a chap called Storz and which is a standard in German firefighting or a good old fashioned thread connector. See the picture below. This means that they should always be operated fully open. Failing to do so risks water leakage into the soil surrounding the fire hydrant.
This can cause unpleasant scouring of the area. If the output from a hydrant needs to be controlled. It is possible to install a valve between the hydrant and the hose.
A firefighter working with a hydrant should always use the right personal protective equipment PPE which should include gloves and a helmet with some form of face shielding. Sadly, there is no uniform standard for fire hydrants that applies globally, and even within countries they can look pretty different. There is a current, sort of standard, in the United States which is recommended by both the NFPA and AWWA , which says that ideally, a hydrant should be a chrome yellow color so that they can be easily seen and then identified.
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