On July 20th the company had a tanker shuttle drill utilizing a nurse tanker. There were several different goals for this drill. 1. Could we maintain water flow without losing it the entire duration of the drill? 2. How many tankers would it take to maintain the flow. 3. Put lower line officers in some command positions. And overall to give ourselves as well as other companies some time in positions they may not normally be in. in total we flowed 65,000 gallon of water at a rate of 1020 gpm through (2) 1-3/4” lines & (1) 2-1/2” pre-connect. The configuration used was tanker 5-9 acting as the nurse tanker (1750 pump 3500 gallon tank) with (2) 2-1/2” lines supplying it from 2 tankers at a time. From tanker 5-9 there was 1100’ of 5” supply line going into tanker 5-11 (1250 pump 2500 gallon tank) from that point there was 100’ 5” lay to engine 5-11-1 which was supplying the 3 hand lines. Engine 5-5-2 connected to tanker 5-11 with a 2-1/2” supply line to add an additional 1000 gallons to help fill the gap if there was one in the water supply. Engine 5-12-1 had the fill site operations 1-1/2 miles away filling tankers w/ (2) 2-1/2” lines at a time. Average fill time at the fill site was 3-1/2 minutes. The tanker shuttle loop was 3 miles. The tankers utilized in the tanker shuttle were
Tanker 5-3 500 GPM/2100 gallons
Tanker 5-5 500 GPM/1800 gallons
Tanker 5-6 1000 GPM/1800 gallons
Tanker 5-7 2000 GPM/3500 gallons
Tanker 5-8 1750 GPM/3000 gallons
Tanker 5-10 1250 GPM/3000 gallons
Tanker 5-13 1000 GPM/3000 gallons
Tanker 6-5 500 GPM/2100 gallons
Tanker 4-10-1 1750 GPM/3000 gallons
In conclusion we were able to maintain flow out of all three lines for the duration of the incident. We found that the one short fall we could have had is with only having 2 lines flowing into the nurse tanker we could have run into the situation of not being able to maintain flow had 2 of the tanker with the smaller pumps been hooked up at the same time. This didn’t happen to us but adding the 3rd line would help to alleviate that chance. We also found once again how important it is to establish the tanker route of travel to and from the fill site as early in the incident as possible as well as making sure the information is relayed to the fire police who can help keep this straight during an incident. There were no trucks or rescues on this assignment as they were not going to be utilized. The scenario was (1) barn well involved with (2) exposures. There for the goal for the “fire” was to protect the exposures. Once the tanker shuttle was completely established and all on the correct travel route an additional line could have been put in place once the 3rd line would have been added to the nurse tanker.
THE WEST WILLOW FIRE COMPANY WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL COMPANIES & FIRE POLICE INVOLVED. A special thank you to station 5-12 for keeping 1 engine on the incident considering their training class for the new engine as well as station 5-7 for there engine crew staying in service on the scene during the incident as standby.
For any additional questions or comments please email Deputy 5-11 @
topper17@verizon.net
Tanker 5-9 (nurse tanker)
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Engine 5-5-2
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Engine 5-11-1
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tanker 5-10, engine 5-11-5, tanker 5-13
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Tanker 5-11
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