Fire Engines Photos

It seems these giant platforms are becoming more and more common in many countries, in an effort to cope with high rise structure fires. The exception still seems to be in the US, where fire departments still appear to be confident that they can rely on building and fire codes to insure that high rise fires can be safely and quickly handled by built in equipment, along with mitigating design and construction features.

Added by Rob Johnson on 11 June 2021.

I should add that FDNY and a few other cities operate a small number of high pressure three stage pumpers, capable of delivering over 5000 LPM at 20AT, to feed dry risers in high rise buildings in the rare event of failure of the buildings' own built in fire pumps. These units carry short lengths of special high pressure 75mm hoses to supply the risers.

But in most cities this very unusual eventuality is catered for by simply pumping in series, using two or even three standard pumpers, with the addition of a few lengths of hoses which are designed to handle the much increased pressures.

In general, built in high rise firefighting systems include redundant pumps, plumbing and control systems so that the need for such tactics and/or special high pressure pumps is very limited. In recent years, FDNY has only operated eight.

Although special high rise equipment tenders are fairly common, aerials over 100 feet (30 metres) are still very rare.

Added by Rob Johnson on 11 June 2021.

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