01-07-2012, 02:41 AM
Mr Fixit Wrote:Thanks for letting us all know about the fire at Woodland Scenics Lester.
I am glad everyone got out safely,that fire sure was intense.
I found the information about insufficient town water supply to fight the fire to be very disturbing to say the least. No point having big shiny fire trucks with impressive pumping capacities if you don't have access to enough water. Look for the yellow storage pool in video clip 4 being topped up while the other trucks are busy sucking it dry. I found it a bit strange that they were using a storage pool and not direct connections to the tanker trucks.
Sad to see Woodland Senics having to suffer this loss.
I see that having shiny fire trucks says to me that the fire department maintains and has pride in their equipment which always needs to work if they are to be effective when responding to fires. Its not strange and is standard practice for fire departmensts to use those "pools" to transfer water from the tankers to the pumpers. When hydrants are not close by they will set up this delivery system and call in many neighboring FD's that also own tankers to provide a constant supply of water to fight the fire. When a tanker is empty it leaves to refill and then return with a fresh supply of water.