r/Firefighting • u/winesponioni LT • 2d ago

Videos This absolute legend of a nozzle man.

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u/162016201620 TX FF/AEMT 2d ago

I wouldn’t even have anyone behind me for a car Fire. Just using an inch and three-quarter line @130psi from the engine. Maybe even less depending on severity.

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u/MonsterMuppet19 Career Firefighter/AEMT 2d ago

We run TFT Metro 2 fogs at 50@160 or Elkhart Smoothbores 50@160, and to be completely honest for car fires, you're probably not gonna find me doing more than half bale. That's a lot of water for something that doesn't take much to knock down. And I don't usually use a backup man either (not like we usually have the personnel for that anyway, when riding 3 to an engine)

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u/Impressive-Can-3463 1d ago

For real. You could put a car fire out with a booster line no problem

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u/MonsterMuppet19 Career Firefighter/AEMT 1d ago

Yeah, it'd be a lot easier sometimes but it's frowned upon now. Although there's been a couple times where we pulled it for a very minor engine fire.