Wildland Apparatus Engineers, can teach you or your crew how to easily perform complex hydraulics calculations.
"Complex" by definition means: ....... Consisting of many different and connected parts. Denoting or involving numbers or quantities or both
Both Simple & Progressive hose-lays do not fit this definition because they are NOT connected by "different" parts, as they are all of the same types of parts.
Multiple Water Tenders & Types, supplying porta tanks to further supply engines drafting and relay pumping a supply line over 3 miles to feed a helicopter dip tank to supply 2 or more helicopter types is by definition a complex hose-lay as it is of many different types of parts and is thus connected and/or interconnected to be successful.
Wildland Engineers are vital to ensuring successful operations can take place on the ground as well as in the air. To date, there is no true wildland engineer course available under the NWCG course offerings.
If you are interested in learning how to handle nearly any hydraulic problem on the fire ground and be successful, then you have come to the right place!
Engineers Intro
Anyone that is serious about learning true Fire Ground Hydraulics, & true apparatus engineering skills, and attends this course will no longer be intimidated by 18,000 foot hose-lays and 2,000 feet of elevation gain requiring 6 pumping platforms to meet
Tactical Objectives.
- T. Dockery
Remote Helicopter Ops
Learn how to:
- Determine the Egpm of your helicopters.
- Determine the time it takes for your water supply to reach the dip tank if supply by pumping operations.
- Determine the number of Water Tenders and type and specification required for uninterrupted operations.
- Determine the best location to place the dip tank to optimize the timing between helicopters and water tenders for max efficiency.
Relays & Pumping
Learn how to:
- Perform Relay Pumping.
- Series pumping or Short Relay.
- Tandem Pumping, caveats and benefits.
- Parallel Pumping and dangers of.
- Friction Reduction through multi line drops.
- Hose types, size benefits and coefficients.
- Critical Drafting points many are never taught.
- How atmospheric conditions can help or hinder your operation.
Which Pump is Best
Learn how to:
- Read and understand Pump Curves.
- Use Pump Curves to determine max flow and pressure capable for a particular job.
- Use pump curves to determine where in a relay operation your apparatus can be of maximum benefit for the assignment given your engine.
Welcome to WAE Fire Hydraulics
One of the most beneficial skillsets that WAE can teach you is:
- How much energy a fire is generating
- How much energy can be absorbed through water
- How much water is required
- How to move the amount of water required
If the fire in this picture was generating 125,000,000 Btu/sec. The amount of water required would be 13,346 gallons every second.
From here you work to determine the number and type of resources, or how much fuel needs to be removed and where.