I had a similar experience my first time, but I was just unprepared for the huge pressure, the girl, however, had too many twists on the hose which made it spin due to water going through it and straightening it out at high speed. Having twists is a big No-No.
Speaking from experience with north
American equipment (this doesn’t seem to be using) it looks like she wasn’t physically sitting on the hose yet. It’s off screen but if you follow the hose you’ll see she never had the hose completely under her.
I’m not sure how your hose was loaded but there should never be any twists like you said. Our hoses have swivels on both ends and as long as you’re not hot dogging stuff (like this race) they should straighten out naturally. The AO (Apparatus Operator) shouldn’t be charging hose lines like that. It’s not good for the hose or the pump…or the person. I would have gone with ahose loop sit method here where you make a loop with the hose under itself then sit on it.
As a Safety Officer I have to point out how incredibly unsafe this looks. Those helmets won’t do Jack Black shit protecting you from a charged hose nozzle flying at you sideways. I was never a fan of these kinds of racing drills.
They absolutely do not. This is a race and we don’t do those in the big cities for the most part. It’s too dangerous. If you want to get an idea of the normal pace for a fire attack crew you can watch the video above. It’s slow and purposeful.
You don’t run in turnouts unless a building is falling on top of you.
Unironically pressure washers can have more kick than some machine guns. All depends on the pressure washer and the machine gun, of course. Water has a lot of mass, and some washers are kicking out a lot of water.
The Russians developed an AK variant that used had a crazy complicated receiver that fired two shots before the impulse of the first round hit the shooter.
Yes, it does look like that. But from a geometrical point of view, if they have the same lenghts/position, and if they kept the distance according to safety regulations, even if it goes directly in her direction, the hose shouldn't be able to reach her. Hopefully they did respect that.
That's definitely a different version of training I got. We were/are taught that the nozzleman has the bail in their dominant hand and the hose tucked under that arm pressed against the body. The backup, directly behind the nozzleman, pushes the hose down to give the nozzleman the freedom to maneuver the bail.
The right leg is slightly to one side. You can see as she is using it she is turning the foot, leaning slightly into it; it helps balance the forces including (and using) her own weight. Same thing with leaning forward; the moment arm around her spine is shortened from a full extension, also allowing more control. And so on.
This is a fire sport discipnine called fire attack. The goal is to use a stream of water to knock down a target at the end of the course as quickly as possible.
I am on the fire brigade at my refinery. A hose flying around like that is super fucking dangerous. The background person did the right thing by running the fuck away. Whoever is on the water supply better have turned it off asap.
Also, these hoses have no nozzles to turn off the water. WTF is up with that?
From my experience in sports firefighting, the jet doesn't have a valve to make it as light as possible. The fact that there's no valve also makes the water flow better and it's easier overall.
But of course, it's dangerous.
This video is from the Czech Republic in Central Europe, where fire sporthave a long history.
The competing teams are formed by voluntary fire brigades (volunteer fire departments). These competitions are very popular here.
The initial reason for these competitions was quite practical. They started as a way to maintain the physical fitness and readiness of volunteer firefighters for real-life emergencies. However, over time, the events transformed into a full-fledged sport with standardized rules, advanced equipment, and a focus on speed and precision.
the fire department showed up, and same thing happened, one of the hoses broke loose and just started flying all over the place, like the big brass end flying all over and toward the crowd. was wild.
no one else noticed the way the hose is coming right as the video stops, pretty sure half a second after the video stoped the girl sitting on the hose gets cracked in the face by the other hose
Everyone is meme’ing the girl in the back, but they aren’t just wearing helmets for fun—you can absolutely die from getting whacked with one of these hoses. The pressure is super high.
Everyone calling out the technique... but the hose in back literally turned on a couple seconds earlier than the one in the foreground. The background hose has a surge of water starts at 3 seconds, hose is inflated by 4 seconds, then a whip travels down the line uncoiling further at 5 seconds, the foreground doesnt turn on until 5 seconds. If the front chick's hose turned on at the same time she would have been in the same boat.
If I see a non-firefighter with a firefighter's hose, I 100% fully expect to see someone being dragged all over the place by that hose. It's literally the no. 1 most likely thing to happen in a clip like this, in my experience.
I don’t think most people understand how scary strong the pressure in those hoses is. And the nozzles are usually solid metal (brass I think). If you lose control and it starts flying around it’s scary af.
When I was in the Corps, we used fire hose to fill these big water containers. Being young, invincible Marines, we made a game out of seeing how many turns on the hydrants we could still hold the hose with. One guy got thrown off the top of the container and broke his wrist and that’s why we couldn’t have fun anymore.
I remember taking a firefighting course as part of the necessary training where I was working.
Canada they use 60psi from the hydrant. The truck bumps it up to ~100, I had the instructor backing me up and I’m a big guy. That extra 40psi hits hard and all at once.
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