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Water Delivery: The Year in Review
Andy Soccodato and Bill Adkins review various water delivery training scenarios they either ran or participated in during 2024 via images from each evolution.
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Water Delivery: Dump Sites
Bill Adkins and Andy Soccodato join Chris Mc Loone to discuss how to set up efficient dump sites.
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Water Delivery: Tanker/Tender Designs for the Rural Environment
Join Chris Mc Loone, Andy Soccodato, and Bill Adkins as they delve into tanker/tender designs in this episode of our Water Delivery Podcast.
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Water Delivery: the Chaffing Block
There are many ways this tool can be used. It is most beneficial when a single firefighter is trying to connect two pieces of 6-inch…
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Designing Rural Rigs
In some ways, rural rigs are the same as their urban and suburban brethren, but in many ways, there are different considerations for designing a…
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Water Delivery: Essential Equipment for Rural Settings
Learn about the essential equipment you should have on your rural engine in this Podcast episode.
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Patterson Creek (WV) FD Adds Vacuum Tanker to Fleet
Vacuum tankers are not a new concept in rural water supply but are not well known in today’s fire service.
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Equipment for Effective Rural Water Supply Operations, Part 2
Water supply operations in the rural setting comprise some of the most challenging scenarios that firefighters face.
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Live At FDIC: Water Delivery
Don't know what a chaffing block is and how it works for rural water delivery? Listen in to find out about that and more.
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Water Delivery: Testing for Proper Flows
Bill Adkins and Andy Soccodato join Chris Mc Loone to dive into why it's important for every department to test its hoselines for proper flows.
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Equipment for Effective Rural Water Supply Operations, Part 1
This article serves to highlight some of the most important pieces of equipment that should be on every rural engine company.
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Water Delivery: Water Eductors
What are water eductors? When should they be used? How can they enhance your drafting operations? We'll answer these questions and more.
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Podcast: Water Delivery: Nozzles for Master Streams
01.22.2024
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Engine-Tender Brings Plenty of Water for Bethel-Tate (OH) FD First-Due Companies
12.20.2023
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Podcast: Water Delivery, Cold Weather Operations
12.04.2023
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Podcast: Water Delivery, Intake Valve Selection
11.06.2023
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Podcast: Water Delivery, the Rural Hitch
10.11.2023
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Podcast: Pros and Cons of Four-Way Valves on the Hydrant
09.18.2023
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Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department Buys Regional Air Trailer with Help from AFG Grant
06.21.2023
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Fayetteville (OH) Receives Needed Extrication Equipment from Grant
04.10.2023
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Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department’s Refurbished Battalion 62
01.31.2023
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SmartDock SCBA Restraint System by IMMI Is A Time Saver
11.14.2022
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Milford (OH) Community Fire Department Lights Up the Sky
10.04.2022
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Lynchburg (OH) Fire Department Takes Delivery of a Federally Funded Rosenbauer Tanker
09.29.2022
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