they will also go to calls like if a tanker spills and it has a possibilty of catching fireHCO said:A foam carrier, with its associated engine, is assigned only on the JFK and LGA airport boxes.
A 10-86 (Fluoroprotein) signal gets two foam carriers, the foam tender, two Purple-K units, and a satellite wagon, all with associated engines.
A 10-87 (Hi-Expansion) incident calls for three foam carriers and a satellite, plus the parent or backup engines.
Two battalion chiefs are assigned as foam coordinators in both instances. The Department is switching to alcohol resistant foam, although only two of the ten foam carriers have changed over.
HCO said:A foam carrier, with its associated engine, is assigned only on the JFK and LGA airport boxes.
A 10-86 (Fluoroprotein) signal gets two foam carriers, the foam tender, two Purple-K units, and a satellite wagon, all with associated engines.
A 10-87 (Hi-Expansion) incident calls for three foam carriers and a satellite, plus the parent or backup engines.
Two battalion chiefs are assigned as foam coordinators in both instances. The Department is switching to alcohol resistant foam, although only two of the ten foam carriers have changed over.
HCO said:A foam carrier, with its associated engine, is assigned only on the JFK and LGA airport boxes.
A 10-86 (Fluoroprotein) signal gets two foam carriers, the foam tender, two Purple-K units, and a satellite wagon, all with associated engines.
A 10-87 (Hi-Expansion) incident calls for three foam carriers and a satellite, plus the parent or backup engines.
Two battalion chiefs are assigned as foam coordinators in both instances. The Department is switching to alcohol resistant foam, although only two of the ten foam carriers have changed over.
HCO said:Five 2015 Freightliner/Seagrave 1500 gallon ?foam tankers? are in service replacing the ten former ?foam carriers.? Each has a backup transport (in parentheses): Engines 96 (73), 152 (161), 167 (162), 247 (321), 260 (299). The 3000 gallon 1992 Mack/Saulsbury foam tender is at E-238, backup is E-325.
Each of 19 foam depots has 50 five-gallon cans of AR-AFFF, five cans of Hi-Ex, and smaller quantities of AFFF. Five depots (Engines 96, 152, 238, 260, and 321) have, in addition, variable numbers of 55-gallon AR-AFFF drums and 25 GPM electric pumps for refilling tankers.