What'll she do?
Photos by Ian Buchanan
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First things first...we had to make sure that we could get all the water out of this hydrant with a minimum of friction loss.  We connected the steamer connection to the front suction, and a 4" line from each spud to an intake.

With the supply in place, Master Firefighter Glen Barnhardt begins flowing water from Tanker 1's deck gun, equipped with a 2" tip.

With Tanker 1's deck gun flowing 1,000 gpm, the BlitzFire flowing 500 gpm, Glen opens the line to Rescue Engine 10's deck gun.

Initially, it seemed that we might run out of water, but suddenly a pump came on in the water system and things improved.

Slowly, Rescue Engine 10's deck gun was fully charged, and now we were up to 2,500 gpm

Here's a nice view of the three master streams flowing.

Technician John Earley begins to tinker, trying to see if we can squeeze out just a little more water.

Water, water everywhere!

Here's the pump panel while flowing the three master streams.  A little tweaking and we were able to open the front bumper line to reach 2,650 gpm.

Quite an impressive sight!