Across
- 3. Refers to an intake port or the intake side of an appliance
- 7. Back step of fire engine
- 8. to carry or drag supply hose to a specific location.
- 9. used to evacuate air from a centrifugal pump housing and hard suction hose.
- 10. hose couplings
- 11. Force created by the rapid deceleration of water
- 14. allows a single hose to be split into two hoses
- 16. main intake valve
- 17. valve that mitigates any excess intake water pressure
- 18. Same as “turnouts.”
- 19. Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health.
- 20. delivers a large quantity of water
- 25. serves as a reference for locating the couplings
- 28. To pressurize a fire hose or fire extinguisher
- 29. Large Diameter Hose.
- 30. An indentation in the rocker lug of a coupling
- 32. A machined 45 degree angle
- 35. Gallons per minute
- 36. A fire engine or ladder truck
- 37. Hose laid from the fire to the water source
- 39. connects stream devices together
- 41. used to deploy hose over distance from the engine to objective
Down
- 1. The motion characteristics of water
- 2. A short fold or reverse bend
- 4. The lever shut-off device on nozzles
- 5. gauge that is capable of measuring pos/neg pressures
- 6. Hose laid from the water source to the fire.
- 12. used to attack, contain, or prevent spread of fire
- 13. Each single fold in a hose load
- 15. wrench used to tighten or loosen couplings
- 18. A one inch piece of nylon sewn into a 51 inch loop
- 21. A stack of hose flakes carried on the right shoulder
- 22. PUMP Pump with one or more impellers
- 23. An engine mounted water storage tank, 500 gals
- 24. Power take-off
- 26. divides one larger hoseline into three or more smaller hoselines. Same as a “tri-gated wye.”
- 27. The front (rubber bumper) part of a nozzle
- 30. The smaller (2 ½”) discharge openings on a fire hydrant.
- 31. air is introduced into a liquid
- 33. Refers to a bend or a fold in a hose or a rope
- 34. A thin rubber O-ring
- 38. PORT largest discharge opening on a fire hydrant
- 40. The main hose-carrying area of a fire engine.
- 42. An appliance that makes two hose lines into one