Fire School water flow record broken: 40,000 gallons pumped per minute
COLLEGE STATION – The music was missing, but like the Bellagio Fountains, the water display was eye-popping, and a Fire School record was broken. The Advanced Industrial Fire Apparatus Practices class pumped approximately 40,000 gallons per minute (GPM) during a water flow exercise at the Brayton Fire Training Field lake.
The record-breaking pump operations exercise on July 16 was accomplished through the assistance of companies who brought pumper trucks, aerial platform ladder trucks, trailer pumps, remote-powered hydraulic supply pumps, trailer mounted high-flow delivery nozzles, up to 12-inch diameter hose, high-capacity hose storage and retrieval equipment, and remote foam proportioning equipment for the big flow exercise, said Mark Turvey, Guest Instructor and Assistant Fire Chief, Lubrizol Corp. Texas Plants.
“The exercise was a lot of fun, but also a lot of work,” he added. “We had over a mile and a half of hose on the ground.”
Vendors and companies who brought firefighting equipment for the exercise included Custom Fire Apparatus, ExxonMobil Mont Belvieu, Ferrara Fire Apparatus, Global Pump, Hytrans Systems, Lubrizol Deer Park, LyondellBasell Channelview, National Foam, Pierce Manufacturing, Siddons-Martin Emergency Group, Sutphen, Task Force Tips, Training Specialties Incorporated, W.S. Darley and Company, Williams Fire & Hazard Control and U.S. Fire Pump.
Watch a video of the 2015 water flow exercise.