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Posted 9 months ago What would it take at point of dispatch to also give units 2 different water supplies from different directions |
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| Posted 9 months ago I'm assuming you mean hydrant locations. We asked our mapping department to "locate" all of the hydrants in our county. They are almost finished. When they are finished, we will have GPS coordinates for all of them. In our updated CAD system that I referred to in another thread, We have the option of creating layers on the map. We made a hydrant layer that can be turned on/off with a click of the mouse. After that, it is just a matter of knowing how to operate the system and using your head. It is working well so far. Before that, we just had to be familiar with the area and help each other out. The largest room is the room for self improvement |
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| Posted 4 months ago We have maps ,of all hydrants,but some dont work.we also have pools but need ppls. permission 2!! but in the County we reley on tankers witch we only call for just 1 .then there r ponds , but here in Tn. they call most of them lakes!! hahahaha. If Dispatch have maps also then it would be faster if they could just remind us of all water sources in the area. |
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| Posted 4 months ago I'm with yankee1 on this subject. We have maps of our hydrants and they are colored coded to as which hydrant works and does not work. Also they are color coded to find out how much GPMs the hydrant flows. But most of the time we don't have a hydrant available to us so we rely on tankers just like yankee1 said. Our dispatch doesn't give us hydrant locations but we do carry map books of hydrants and street names in all of our trucks. Also most of the time an officer will arrive on scene before the engine does so they try to find hydrants before we get there. "Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Bagdad ain't shit." "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem." United States Marine Corps |
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| Posted 4 months ago Kind of on the same topic as far as hydrants go. Our dispatch doesn't have a clue where the hydrants are, but we are relatively familiar with their locations. However, last year, we had a kid who was working on his Eagle Scout stuff and he approached our city with a proposal. The city purchased blue street reflectors and the appropriate adhesive and this kid went throughout the entire town and placed those blue reflectors in the center of the street along the middle line where every fire hydrant was. It has helped tremendously locating hydrants, especially at night. Ross Caston
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| Posted 4 months ago Our downfall is in New Bloomfield you don't want to rely on a hydrant for a water supply. 2 attack lines and your in good shape. If we need big water for hydraulic overhaul or defensive opps, we need to go to outsources and set up for rural water supply. |
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| Posted 4 months ago Our Fire Inspectors created pre-plans of critical facilities, as well as for specific high risk areas. The pre-plans have all water sources identified. The department I was with previously had grid maps developed for the entire town. Each grid map identified all water sources as well. We didn't have a CAD system in place. I have seen the mapping options on some of the CAD systems and, as tsmith1 stated, they work wonderfully!!! |
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| Posted 4 months ago im yankee1s son he didnt mention our hydrants were color coded until the dpw decide 2 go 2 a different town and saw the hydrants the same color so the came back and decided 2 make all of our hydrants the same color in the city limits so now we have 2 test them before we hook into them. |