Fire Engines Photos

Hello Jacques, nice picture. A few questions for you, if you don't mind. What is the length of hose on each of the hose reels and what size is it? Is it attack or supply hose? Do the pompiers carry water, how much, and what is the pump volume? Is there a high pressure pump and tubing/booster hose/reels as well? Thanks.

Added by David Lampp on 03 September 2009.

Hi David, not at all I dont mind. I will try to answer as much as i can.

On the hose reel there are 200m of 70mm hose mainly used for supply to/from a point of water
(hydrant) in France there is a point of water minimum every 200m by law.

The attack is normally done with hose stored in the rooms on the side of the truck. My days hose were rolled now they are folded like an accordeon (new rules)

The two pumper in front of the picture carry 3000l
Pump capacity 1 000 to 3 000 l/min.
Basic pumpers (by law)
There is a high pressure pump and tubing/booster hose/reel 80m at the rear.(old version on picture)
In France we also have light and heavy pumpers with different water tanks and pump capacity, howerer lowest pump capacity should be 1000l/min.

Nowadays pumpers have two tubing/booster hose/reel 80m, left and right side.

There are almost no dry/pumpers left in France, if so maybe in a lost rural area where they still have old models. If a FS doesnt have at least 1 pumper with water it will be down-graded to 3rd category. Meaning almost no action.

Should you have more questions i would be more than happy to explain as much as i can.
cheers - JP




Added by Jacques PETER on 03 September 2009.

Thanks Jacques, I appreciate the information. I visited France twenty years ago, but never went to one of the local fire stations. One last question, is the hose stored accordion style, pre-connected? (Meaning, already hooked to a pump outlet and a nozzle).

Added by David Lampp on 04 September 2009.

No they are not hooked or pre-connected, just stored in the side storages.

Added by Jacques PETER on 05 September 2009.

Angouleme is one of five company headquarters in the Charente Department and as a result the station has a rather extensive fleet of appliances.

The city itself has only 43, 000 population, but many units are centered there to serve its three surrounding all-volunteer fire stations' response areas, which do not have some types of special purpose units of their own.

This station has 82 full-time paid staff and 34 volunteers, with 18 total vehicles responding to some dozen calls a day. The other three in the company have 122 volunteers and 29 other vehicles between them, and tackle a total of another three or four calls on an typical day.

Added by Rob Johnson on 05 May 2018.

Thanks Rob.

Added by David Lampp on 08 May 2018.

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