Hamlet Hill Road,<br/>
Pomfret, Connecticut<br/>
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2nd alarm equivelant + special call for three tankers.<br/>
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Initial call approximately 1800hrs.<br/>
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First photo 1830hrs.<br/>
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Pomfret ET 170  ET 270  Tower 170  Rescue 370  Rescue** 570<br/>
Mutual Aid:<br/>
Eastford ET 171  ET 271  Hose Tender 171 (Water Hole) Rescue 371<br/>
Williamsville ET 160 ET 260<br/>
Mortlake ET 190 ET 290* Ladder 190 Rescue 490<br/>
Hampton ET 112  ET 212  Rescue 512**<br/>
Dayville ET 263*<br/>
Attawaugan ET 262*<br/>
Chaplin ET 209*<br/>
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Scotland -- 1 piece cover Hampton<br/>
Woodstock -- 1 piece cover Pomfret<br/>
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* = 2,500 gallon or larger tanks; small ETs are 1,000 to 1,500 gallon<br/>
** = Ambulance<br/>
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Guess which Trooper is from the area and goes with the flow...and which one I suspect isn't around that much:<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010001_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Hampton ET 212 (1,500gwt) initially setup as the base tanker.  (Yeah, I even used the term nurse tanker myself at the fire, but I don't like that terminology unless you have a piece of hard suction hooked up and are nursing from the tank!)<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010004_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Pomfret ET 270 (5" line) and Williamsville ET 260 (4") led the charge.  Variation on a theme -- we work up long driveways a lot, this was just a few hundred feet up a paved road instead.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010012_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Wasn't much left, only about 45 minutes after tones.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010021_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Pulling down the wall.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010023_small.jpg" /><br/>
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<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010025_small.jpg" /><br/>
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A few lines got pulled, too.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010026_small.jpg" /><br/>
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The dump site is getting straightened out.  This was a pump-off shuttle.  Here one ET is being pulled in behind the base tanker, another in front -- which re-opens the road to let apparatus by if need be.  Best practice is one ET is pumping off while the other is being hooked up so you always have one flowing, one going, then another coming.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010029_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Attawaugan ET 262 -- yes, there are 4" and 5" lines feeding ET 212, one 5" discharge, and one 4" discharge.  It's a rear mount pump if you're wondering about the location of the lines.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010031_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Mortlake ET 190<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010037_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Hampton ET 112, another rear mount pump.  The weight distribution and less plumbing from rear mounts helps them put 1,500gwt on short four door chassis and stay bridge law legal.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010049_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Williamsville ET 160<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010051_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Ahhhh...the big boys are back.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010059_small.jpg" /><br/>
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And just in time for Tower operations.  38 minutes since I arrived, bit more then an hour from 911.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010060_small.jpg" /><br/>
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ET 212's been pulled out, and ET 290 will be the new base tanker so the big tankers and pump off and go without being limited by the smaller ET 212's tank.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010071_small.jpg" /><br/>
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<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010073_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Shuttling the other needed water...<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010076_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Not trying to set any tanker shuttle records, and with the bigger tank to buffer flows on ET 290 no longer pumping one truck while hooking up another.<br/>
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(I was the officer on ET 290's virgin run -- to Pomfret as well -- were tankers supplied 1,000gpm for several hours and kept two ladder pipes in operation.  That was a bit more intense in getting trucks in and out of the dump and fill sites, and about the limits of what you can do in pump-off style shuttles.  Flowing more than that you better be dropping portable ponds).<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010084_small.jpg" /><br/>
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This is the last round for the small ETs.  They'll be pulled out of the shuttle after this round. The high-flow shuttle in the last paragraph was split with the big ETs and small ETs each having their own fill and dump sites which is more efficient then mixing them in one shuttle.<br/>
<img src = "http://www.d90.us/fire/1_May_2008_Hamlet_Hill_Road_Pomfret/P5010087_small.jpg" /><br/>
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Judging from the time the ETs were pumping off, we were moving about 500gpm during this part of the fire.<br/>
And if I do the math...<br/>
The shuttle was a nice loop -- 3 miles.  <br/>
Figure our big tankers average 250gpm/mile, small tankers 125gpm/mile.  Settled into 3 big and 5 small that ran the shuttle.  3*250 = 750; 5*125 = 625; 750+625=1375gpm; 1375gpm/3 = 458gpm.<br/>

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Pizza time.  I suppose NFPA will ban this, too, one of these days.<br/>
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