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The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)

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148 points mstngl | 1 comments | 03 Nov 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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joemi ◴[03 Nov 25 23:21 UTC] No.45805686[source]▶
> During a fire in the Bronx, firemen laid 7,000ft of hose to get to a suitable water supply and the truck pumped as though it was dipping its feet into the ocean.

"7000 ft" sounds wrong to me. That's over a mile of hose. Feels like that's unnecessarily long. I'd love to learn more about this. Anyone know when or what fire this was?

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maxerickson ◴[03 Nov 25 23:30 UTC] No.45805750[source]▶
It could draw from 8 hydrants. So average of 900 feet in that case.

Which still seems like a lot, but not so incredible.

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1. permonst ◴[04 Nov 25 04:52 UTC] No.45807538[source]▶
It's not uncommon to see an individual fire engine in the US with 800-1000 feet of supply hose. I don't know if that's a common configuration in a dense city like NYC, but it's certainly a reasonable amount per engine.