training firegeezer on 26 Feb 2008 09:18 am
Concrete Pumper Update
Our posting the other day (HERE) on the empressment of the concrete pumper as an additional aerial stream generated a lot of interest as well as compliments for its innovativeness.
Jeff Harkey, publisher of FireNews.net that carried the story received several requests for more information. He got an email from one of the local chiefs in the county and sent it on to us and we’d like to share it with you:
This truck is operated by a Wallace fireman and they have adapted it to be used as an aerial device if needed. We used it in Warsaw at a commercial structure fire downtown in 1997, at Carrolls Mill twice in the past few years and has been available if needed. It is set to recieve several 3″ lines or 5″ and has a discharge on the end if you need to hook a smaller wye on it. The time I remember using it was on Carrolls Mill, we had a 2.5″ x 2.5″x2.5″ wye hooked to it. It is very useful being there is no aerial device in Duplin County. Recently 2 departments around in border counties have obtained such aerial devices.
Sincerely
Lee Kennedy
Assistant Chief
Faison Fire & Rescue
Jeff tells us that he will be trying to get some more photos of the rig and its adapters. We’ll keep you in touch.
on 26 Feb 2008 at 10:24 pm 1.Lt KGP said …
In Seattle we have used concrete pumpers at ship fires. However, it’s the concrete, not water, that we used to seal the gap between heat-warped steel decking and hatch covers. After sealing with the concrete slurry, we can start applying CO2 into the hold(s) on fire.