Once you pull the line to the base of the fire and say “charge the line” you can mask up before the driver has time to uncouple the hose, connect it to the wye and send water.
If you need help masking up you do not belong in the fire service. Not to mention it's reckless and dangerous to mask up in the rig. You're knowingly limiting your vision for now reason and your going to fog your mask. This can lead to injuries.
Its done in like every fire Department in Germany and ive never heard of any injuries and also i have never seen the Maske fogg up. I dont know the the right Word for it but the like air Hose is not conected to the mask you only Connect it right before going. So when you moving with mask on the is like a hole wvere you can breaht out.
Sorry for my English
You’re talking about condensation which I believe occurs when the you go on air and if there’s any kind of moisture in the mask the quick change in temperature causes condensation. While I was reading to be a lieutenant we worked in the cans for 3 weeks and on day 2 my mask got soaked in water and from there in our every time I went on air my mask would fog up. It didn’t fog up before going in air. Both systems are not bad or good it’s the user who is bad or good.
I must be stupid, but where are you that you don't pull a preconnected line for a working fire? Like I understand the situation of high rise fires and things like that but the situation you are talking about is a rare one for I would say the entire east coast of the US. Most everyone I know is pulling preconnected handlines on fires. The driver is not having to uncouple anything almost ever on the initial handline attack. Now when you get in to water supply and stuff that's different. But you lost me on what you mean by pull the line, uncouple that hose, connect it to a wye(at the engine?!) and then send water.
Im in Ohio at a station that sees 200-250 fires a year.
Our hose bed is all preconnected 1 3/4” with a tip on it. Same for our 2” line, our 3” line has a preconnected RAM. We have ears on the back so you jump on the bumper, grab the ears and tip (thats a whole section) and walk it to the fire. Whether its the front door or inside and up to the entrance to the attic for example, basically as far as we can go without charging the line and masking up.
As soon as you get there you mask up. This whole time the driver and backup guy (we staff 4 on all companies) are flaking line and securing a hydrant in whatever order that company decides they want to operate. So the driver may send the backup guy with 4” to the hydrant, and the driver will see the line stop being pulled inside, and probably take another section off (he should be counting each section taken inside, and know how many more might be needed).
At this point your 1 3/4” is still preconnected, so the driver uncouples it from the hose bed, connects it to the wye and charges it. In that time it takes the driver to do that, youll already be masked up sitting on the line waiting for water.
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u/Alleskaese7392 2d ago
About the masking up in germany we just mask up in the truck so that you are ready when you get out.