Hauling Water - Pennsylvania Style - A New Member of the 1,000 GPM Club!
By President Mark Davis
October 27, 2016
Congratulations to Chief Ira Walker, Jr. and the folks at the Eureka VFD in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania for achieving "1,000 GPM Club" member status. Over 40 participants from the Eureka VFD and other nearby fire departments attended our 16-hr Rural Water Supply Operations Seminar which culminated in a 2-hr water supply drill. Using just eight tankers and two fill sites, the crews were able to start flowing 600 gpm at the 5-minute mark, move to 1,100 gpm at the 60-minute and hold that flow through the remainder of the drill. This feat included overcoming the loss of one fill site pumper at the 106-minute mark.
The group of participants became the 7th member of the GBW Associates, LLC "1,000 GPM Club." Congratulations. A full summary will be posted in a few weeks. Instructors for the weekend were Mark Davis and Alan Butsch.
Plus...the t-shirt raffle resulted in the 49th GotBigWater brick in the Walk of Honor at the NFFF Memorial!
Learning the finer points of dump tank set up.
A Big Water Rig - without a doubt!
Setting up to run a nurse tanker operation during the initial few minutes in the drill.
Water flow starts...
Jefferson Tanker 47 connects to the siamese to support nurse tanker ops while the dump site gets built out.
The first Tanker Task Force arrives.
600 gpm and the dump site is being built out.
Dump site ops are now underway.
Lineboro Tanker 7 remains in a reserve status until the dump site is stable.
4,000 gallons - being dumped.
The highlight of the drill was Eureka Engine 54-4 (2,250 gpm) drafting from four dump tanks using four different suction inlets!
