Engine Company Tactics for Stretching Hose
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Engine Company Tactics for Stretching Hose

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 19, 202649 min

Host Anthony Rowett welcomes Mickey Farrell, an FDNY lieutenant, and James Stallings, a captain in Mobile, Alabama, to break down size-up and hose stretching. The panel talks through practical, repeatable methods for single‑family homes, garden apartments, center‑hall buildings, and standpipe/vertical stretches. They also emphasize slowing down to see the big picture and simple drills that turn unknowns into knowns.

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I want to welcome everybody back to this month's episode of Generation Engine with Fire Engineering. A little bit different this month. We're out of town together, so a few of us got together to have a little bit different of a conversation while we were together here in Pierland, Texas, for a class down here. So introduce myself, and then we'll go to our guests.

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Anthony Rowett, a captain with the Mobile Fire Rescue Department in Mobile, Alabama. I'm Becky Farrow, lieutenant of the New York City Fire Department. James Stallings, captain Mobile Fire. All right, so for this episode we wanted to talk a little bit, get into the topic of size up.

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How we're going to size up from an engine's perspective, estimating the stretch, but getting our eyes on the building and trying to make our decisions and make sure we get everything right for the first line. So starting with it, for me personally it all comes down to that first line obviously in the engine, but it starts with size up. We need to know how much hose we're going to

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