It’s used for prolonged incident. It all depends how how far the water sources will be. Atleast 30-45mins to get into operation.
Same with the old SP. it would hook up to two water sources sometimes blocks away from the fire. If there was a job down by the water, it used to be fed by a marine company then relay essentially to manifolds, TL, tender and satellites. In some cases it would also augment water to engines already hooked up at a scene
While I'm not too knowledgeable about it, I'd assume that's still significantly less than the Neptune system that NJ has. I feel like this would be a lot easier to maneuver and setup than that entire system, which would lead to getting it into service a whole lot faster.
I know what you're saying about the spread of the tormentors on very tall tower ladders. London Fire Brigade has 2 very tall tower ladders that they bought after the disaster at that high rise dwelling fire, in the Grenfield Towers. NYC streets are tight but not a tight as London, England. I feel the need is there and it is only a matter of time, before FDNY will need very tall tower ladders for a major High-rise fire, especially if the building burns when it is under construction. On the Super Pumper idea, I had a fire in Bushwick Brooklyn in 1977 that at one point involved 32 Buildings and the 1977 Great Black Out that had 1,300 working fires happen in just over 24 hours. The same conditions exist today as in 1977 and the chance of conflagrations exists especially in times of civil unrest. You need to have more of that very high-capacity pumping capability, available for those few fires that become uncontrollable. Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired
Terrible looking rig
It doesn't matter one bit what the trucks look like, it's how they performed that matters!
It’s used for prolonged incident. It all depends how how far the water sources will be. Atleast 30-45mins to get into operation.
they tested a Bronco Skylift a few years ago, on the St. Patrick’s Cathedral. That was the main look at the Skylift due to the height of some of the churches but the shops said it was too much money to maintain and didn’t have a place to put it. L20 firehouse has the garage under firehouse so they couldn’t put it there. Wasn’t any other options at that time. Still a few firehouses that have issues with rigs now like Pitt Street.
then why did the fdny in 2008 switch to 2000 gpm pump if a 1000 gpm pump can pump out more then that
I have heard some of the engines in the high rise districts have more than two stage pumpers. I cannot confirm
FDNY has eight 3-stage pumpers, assigned to Engine companies 6, 8, 10,26, 34,54, 65 and 258. You could have found this out by reading our FAQs . . . which contain a vast amount of information.
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Is that 45 minutes from arrival to first water or 45 minutes from arrival to pumping at a potential max capacity? Is that due to the pump needing to be primed up or does it take that long to stretch lines and get the system tied into its sources?
