Anytime a piece of equipment goes into a new area the acting fire incident command will give the trucks a once over, think of it like a pre-race inspection. So yes when Cal-Fire sends a rig into Oregon they give it a once over, Same thing for the rigs coming in from Az. While they don't stop them in Blythe for inspection, they do it at the Command Center before they go into the field.
Plus remember that there were around 40 Engine Trucks fighting the fires each connecting to a hydrant pulling as much water as they could. In other words it was like trying to take a shower while the dishwasher was running, the wife is doing laundry and your kid is washing the car in the driveway all while the irrigation is watering the back yard.Never ever thought about the house leaking aspect.
That's huge.
yup, if no one is there to shut off the main feed then it keeps running.Never ever thought about the house leaking aspect.
That's huge.
Even if the angle stop is made out of metal the faucet has a plastic valve or rubber hose going from the angle stop to the fixture. The thing you need to remember is when you evacuate you shut off the main coming into the house.
Wouldn't there be a main residential feed that could be shut off and a separate fire feed so that in an emergency the residential feed could be shut off to divert all the water to the emergency fire feed? That sounds like a no brainer to me but maybe they never thought of that.
My house has copper to the house, with two shut off valves at the house, one for sprinklers, one main. But even so, I would "Attempt" the shut the main at the curb. Lucky me, I'm far from the hot zone. I know a guy that lived in Pacific Palisades, (Did live) but the area is gone.
There are main valves all over the place. I found out (the hard way) that a few were in my yard when the main broke under our driveway the day we moved in. The water company knew where they were right away but I'm not sure if the fire departments have that same info. Lifted the entire street 2" for about 80 yards. I think there were 3 in the yard that knocked out water for a couple blocks.
The water line running down the street that feeds your house also feeds the hydrants. What you are asking is to double the amount of infrastructure for water.
You still had almost 40 firetrucks pulling water at the same time. It would be hard to design a system that could hold up to such demand.
Sump pumps discharge at a high gallon per hour rate but not at very good pressure. I’m not saying that it won’t work for your application but please check it out before you depend on it. I’m not much of a plumber so maybe someone on here can explain it better.
we use 2 in trash pumps from harbor freight to pump water and spray water on the mulch piles the will work good for fire as well as for electric pumps i have not found any submersible pump that have enough pressure to spray water there are some 1.5 inch sprinkler pumps that are 230v that could be plumbed to the main drain in a pool
Yeah, especially dumb shit like “is the cord long enough to be plugged in OUTSIDE the pool.” Would suck to end up dying from a lightning ride instead of the fire because you dove in in a hurry without checking first.
