The old saying, "putting the wet stuff on the red stuff" has built into it the huge assumption that the "wet stuff" will exit the nozzle with enough pressure to protect firefighters while ...
As with any maintenance requirement, the intent of small hose inspection and testing is to ensure that they will reliably operate properly when called upon, which is even more critical for emergency ...
Waterway, the country's largest fire-hose testing Company is now able to serve Fire Departments, plants and refineries in Texas. Based close to Dallas/Fort Worth, the new franchise is being run by two ...
Indianapolis - Two Franklin Township firefighters were injured in a hose testing exercise Thursday morning. Sean Schembra, 29, was struck in the head by a broken coupling. Justin Goff, also 29, ...
The process of specifying and purchasing fire hose may seem simple, but it can get quite confusing and complicated when you start looking further into it. Over the past five years, I have been tasked ...
The special operations group of the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services is in the middle of testing 260,000 feet of fire hose this week. “Every stitch of hose in the county must be ...
If the pandemic and ensuing market volatility have taught the hose and belt industry one thing, it is to pivot when necessary — and to test and retest products when a change is forced in raw materials ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - German tyre and automotive parts maker Continental on Monday reported shortcomings in the testing of industrial hoses at its ContiTech site in Korbach in the state of Hesse. There ...