May 13/03

Practicing with our fast attack truck

We live in a heavily forested area, and the ability to respond to a fire when it is small (hopefully) and either extinguish or slow it's advance until the professional forest fire fighters arrive is important.

Using the small pumps requires a thrifty water technique, which we are fairly proficient at (we haul all of our own water, no hydrants).

setting up a supply pump (Honda 4 stroke to tank  to mark3 forestry pump to 1/2" forestry handline)

balancing the tank water level is tricky as the mark 3 empties the tank faster than the Honda can fill it.